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The Sky This Week: April 29 – May 1

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The Sky This Week: April 29 – May 1

 

Friday, April 29
Last Quarter Moon occurs at 11:29 p.m. EDT. The half-lit orb doesn’t rise until after 2 a.m. local daylight time tomorrow morning, however, when you can see it climbing in the southeast among the background stars of northern Capricornus.

 

 

Saturday, April 30
Asteroid 6 Hebe currently lies among the background stars of eastern Leo the Lion, just a stone’s throw from 2nd-magnitude Denebola. The region reaches its peak in the southern sky shortly after darkness falls. This evening, 10th-magnitude Hebe lies some 4° northwest of Denebola.

 

 

Sunday, May 1
One of the spring sky’s finest deep-sky objects, the Beehive star cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer the Crab, lies high in the west once evening twilight fades away. The 3rd-magnitude cluster lies approximately 40 percent of the way from 1st-magnitude Pollux in Gemini to the similarly bright star Regulus in Leo. With naked eyes under a dark sky, you should be able to spot the Beehive as a faint cloud. But this star group explodes into dozens of stars through binoculars or a small telescope at low power.

 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Sun & Moon Data for Friday, April 29th

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Your Sun & Moon Data for Friday, April 29th

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 115.21° ESE
Sun Altitude: 50.96°
Sun Distance: 93.630 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:02 AM↑ 71° East
Sunset Today: 7:42 PM↑ 289° West
Length of Day: 13 hours, 40 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 236.30° WSW
Moon Altitude: 14.25°
Moon Distance: 239052 mi
Next New Moon: May 6, 20162:29 PM
Next Full Moon: May 21, 20164:14 PM
Next Moonset: Today11:56 AM
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 55.4%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Greetings & Merry Meet To All Our Brothers & Sisters of the Craft on This Glorious Friday!

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We am more than what anyone expects
We am more than what the world sees
We am more than what we show you
We am more than what can be
We am more than women and men
We am part of the earth and the earth is part of us
We feel the best when we are working the earth
We feel fulfilled when we see the growth of the earth
We smell the beauty of the earth when it rain
My self, my Sisters, my Brothers, we are of the earth
The earth is our Mother
We am more than what is seen and more to come
Much more to come

 

—The Poem “I Am” from A Witch’s Prayerbook
JoAnne Spiese

*Should be noted that I did a little re-paraphrasing to Ms. Spiese’s beautiful poem.

 

A Little Humor for Your Day – “Signs That You Are Addicted to Coffee”

Signs That You Are Addicted to Coffee

  1. Juan Valdez names his donkey after you.
  2. You get a speeding ticket even when you’re parked.
  3. You grind your coffee beans in your mouth.
  4. You sleep with your eyes open.
  5. You have to watch videos in fast-forward.
  6. You lick your coffeepot clean.
  7. Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
  8. The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.
  9. You can type sixty words a minute with your toes.
  10. You can jump-start your car without cables.
  11. Your only source of nutrition comes from “Sweet & Low.”
  12. You don’t sweat, you percolate.
  13. You’ve worn out the handle on your favorite coffee mug.
  14. You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee.
  15. You’ve worn the finish off you coffee table.
  16. The Taster’s Choice couple wants to adopt you.
  17. Starbuck’s owns the mortgage on your house.
  18. You’re so wired you pick up FM radio.
  19. Your life’s goal is to “amount to a hill of beans.”
  20. Instant coffee takes too long.
  21. You want to be cremated just so you can spend eternity in a coffee can.
  22. You name your cats “Cream” and “Sugar.”
  23. Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position.
  24. Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.
  25. The only time you look like you’re standing still is during an earthquake.

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