Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 28

Sun Halo over Sweden

Video Credit & Copyright: Håkan Hammar (Vemdalen Ski Resort, SkiStar)

Explanation: What’s happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a giant lens. In the featured video, however, there are actually millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat and parallel to the ground. An observer may find themselves in the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating phenomena like parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. The featured video was taken in late 2017 on the side of a ski hill at the Vemdalen Ski Resort in central Sweden. Visible in the center is the most direct image of the Sun, while two bright sundogs glow prominently from both the left and the right. Also visible is the bright 22 degree halo — as well as the rarer and much fainter 46 degree halo — also created by sunlight refracting through atmospheric ice crystals.

December 28 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 28 has an illumination of 35%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 28 the Moon is 23.59 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 km

Useful Moon Resources

28 December Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 28 has an illumination of 35%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 28 the Moon is 23.59 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.59 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 370,965.10 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,109,039.38 km

Useful Moon Resources

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Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

28 December 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Capricorn 42
Moon:21 Libra 09
Mercury:22 Capricorn 39
Venus:24 Capricorn 53 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 26
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 49
Saturn:11 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 01 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 36
Pluto:25 Capricorn 49
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 10
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 44 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 03
Chiron:08 Aries 28
Ceres:29 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 33
Juno:15 Capricorn 56
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 31
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

 

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

28 December 2021
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Capricorn 18
Moon:29 Libra 16
Mercury:23 Capricorn 32
Venus:24 Capricorn 40 Rx
Mars:10 Sagittarius 51
Jupiter:29 Aquarius 56
Saturn:11 Aquarius 34
Uranus:11 Taurus 00 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 37
Pluto:25 Capricorn 50
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 07

Chiron:08 Aries 28

Ceres:28 Taurus 58 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 41
Juno:16 Capricorn 09
Vesta:22 Sagittarius 49
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:5
Water:2
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

December 27 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Third Quarter phase. Sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon, this phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the Moon is three quarter of the way through it’s orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side will be dark. For those of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day. In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon’s illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Last Quarter Phase

The Last Quarter on December 27 has an illumination of 46%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 27 the Moon is 22.55 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Last Quarter
Illumination: 46%
Moon Age: 22.55 days
Moon Angle: 0.53
Moon Distance: 375,131.19 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,113,615.84 km

Useful Moon Resources

Days Of The Week In Wicca

From a Wiccan viewpoint, it is marvellous how the traditional names of days have survived all through the dark times. It is no secret that all seven days of the week have been named after Gods and Goddesses worshipped by the Old Tradition. Let’s explore the way we could bring a little magic in our everyday use.

According to modern Wicca traditions, all seven days of the week has different attributes and represent a certain element. It is down to you individually, how you use this information but it is believed that an understanding of the wheel of the week can bring a nice change to a hectic lifestyle.

The seven-day week was first introduced by ancient Egyptians, when according to Egyptian astrology they assigned a name to every day by the planet that was regent during the first hour of that particular day. As ancient Egyptian astrology knew only seven celestial bodies, we now have seven days of the week. But all this has also a deeper meaning not only within Wicca.

Sunday was named after Sunna – the Germanic goddess of the Sun. In modern Wicca traditions it…

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December 27 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World

1657 “Flushing Remonstrance” petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship

1939 Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 earthquake in Erzincam, Turkey

1945 International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes

1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia

1979 After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin

Today’s Historical Events

418 [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope

537 Hagia Sophia inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral

795 Leo III begins his reign as Pope after his election the previous day

1437 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia

1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World

1521 The “Zwickau Prophets” appear in Wittenberg

1657 “Flushing Remonstrance” petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship

1679 Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Show Boat” premieres in New York City

1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1947 1st “Howdy Doody Show” (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC

1964 The Supremes 1st appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” singing “Come See About Me”

1974 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years

1978 CBS Television’s premiere of its version of “Les Miserables”, starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins

1979 Soap Opera “Knots Landing” premieres on CBS-TV

1986 2nd Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Lives wins

Today’s Historical Music Events

1903 “Sweet Adeline”, a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung

1932 Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City

1934 “Thumbs Up” a musical revue, including music and lyrics by Vernon Duke & James Hanley premieres in NYC

1941 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony in Siberia

1954 Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera “The Saint of Bleecker Street” opens at Broadway Theater in ,NYC; runs for 92 performances

1961 Styne, Comden and Green’s musical “Subways Are For Sleeping” premieres at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 205 performances

1966 “At the Drop of Another Hat” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 performances

1967 Leonard Cohen releases his debut album “Songs of Leonard Cohen” on Columbia Records

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1892 Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in 1st black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina

1897 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2

1919 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season

1937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany

1942 5th NFL All Star Game, Shribe Park, Philadelphia: NFL All-Stars beat Washington Redskins, 17-14

1951 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)

1953 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16 to retain title

1956 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 27

Comet Leonard behind JWST Launch Plume

Image Credit & Copyright: Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT)

 

Explanation: Which one of these two streaks is a comet? Although they both have comet-like features, the lower streak is the only real comet. This lower streak shows the coma and tail of Comet Leonard, a city-sized block of rocky ice that is passing through the inner Solar System as it continues its looping orbit around the Sun. Comet Leonard has recently passed its closest to both the Earth and Venus and will round the Sun next week. The comet, still visible to the unaided eye, has developed a long and changing tail in recent weeks. In contrast, the upper streak is the launch plume of the Ariane V rocket that lifted the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) off the Earth two days ago. The featured single-exposure image was taken from Thailand, and the foreground spire is atop a pagoda in Doi Inthanon National Park. JWST, NASA’s largest and most powerful space telescope so far, will orbit the Sun near the Earth-Sun L2 point and is scheduled to start science observations in the summer of 2022.

 

Gallery: Comet Leonard 2021
Gallery: Webb Space Telescope Launch: 2021 December 25

Celtic Calendar – Birch December 24 – January 20

(I am sorry I did not get this up on December 24 the day it started)

Birch – the tree of birth

The Birch was seen by the Druids as the tree of birth – a symbol of new beginnings. Beth, meaning birch, is the first letter in the Ogham alphabet and the first month in the Celtic Tree Calendar.

From ireland-calling.com – Birch

The birch tree has many uses both medicinal and practical.

Birch wood is durable but quick to rot, making it a good home for insects and birdlife.

It was often used to make May poles and start the fires at Beltane, the festival of new beginnings, due to a highly combustible tar in its bark.

This tar is furthermore believed to be good for the skin and can be used to treat eczema.

Birch is also associated with purification and protection. The leaves of the birch can be brewed into a tea that treats infection, stimulates the gall bladder and kidneys and is said to dissolve gravel and kidney stones.

Birch used to stimulate purification process

In Scandinavia birch is used in saunas to stimulate the purification process and in Russia birch branches are beaten against the skin at steam rooms for the same purpose. This practice was also used as a punishment in old England to purify a criminal of evil.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 26

James Webb Space Telescope over Earth

Image Credit: Arianespace, ESA, NASA, CSA, CNES

Explanation: There’s a big new telescope in space. This one, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), not only has a mirror over five times larger than Hubble‘s in area, but can see better in infrared light. The featured picture shows JWST high above the Earth just after being released by the upper stage of an Ariane V rocket, launched yesterday from French Guiana. Over the next month, JWST will move out near the Sun-Earth L2 point where it will co-orbit the Sun with the Earth. During this time and for the next five months, JWST will unravel its segmented mirror and an array of sophisticated scientific instruments — and test them. If all goes well, JWST will start examining galaxies across the universe and planets orbiting stars across our Milky Way Galaxy in the summer of 2022.

 

APOD Gallery: Webb Space Telescope Launch

June 18 Northern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America 

June 18, 2021
01:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:27 Gemini 31
Moon:02 Libra 21
Mercury:16 Gemini 49 Rx
Venus:19 Cancer 30
Mars:04 Leo 18
Jupiter:02 Pisces 11
Saturn:12 Aquarius 59 Rx
Uranus:13 Taurus 17
Neptune:23 Pisces 11
Pluto:26 Capricorn 14 Rx

True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 38
Mean Lunar Node:09 Gemini 56 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):26 Taurus 42

Chiron:12 Aries 37
Ceres:15 Taurus 40
Pallas:26 Pisces 03
Juno:13 Sagittarius 48 Rx
Vesta:18 Virgo 11

Eris:24 Aries 42

Fire:4
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

 

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link  

Currentplanetarypositions.com 

 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link  

For Your Local Time and Date   

29 May Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions 

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  
The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 10:00 PM.

29 May (28) 2021
10:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Gemini 47
Moon:12 Capricorn 03
Mercury:24 Gemini 41
Venus:24 Gemini 20
Mars:21 Cancer 37
Jupiter:01 Pisces 22
Saturn:13 Aquarius 30 Rx
Uranus:12 Taurus 16
Neptune:22 Pisces 59
Pluto:26 Capricorn 35 Rx
True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 44
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 02 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):24 Taurus 25
Chiron:11 Aries 59
Ceres:07 Taurus 58
Pallas:22 Pisces 44
Juno:18 Sagittarius 24 Rx
Vesta:12 Virgo 01
Eris:24 Aries 33
Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:6
Water:4Cardinal:5
Fixed:4
Mutable:10

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link Currentplanetarypositions.com

 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 

For Your Local Time and Date

21 May Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  


The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 10:00 PM.

21 May 20, 2021
10:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:00 Gemini 06
Moon:14 Virgo 00
Mercury:21 Gemini 32
Venus:14 Gemini 32
Mars:16 Cancer 43
Jupiter:00 Pisces 43
Saturn:13 Aquarius 31
Uranus:11 Taurus 49
Neptune:22 Pisces 51
Pluto:26 Capricorn 41 Rx

True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 48 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 27 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):23 Taurus 31

Chiron:11 Aries 40
Ceres:04 Taurus 53
Pallas:21 Pisces 05
Juno:20 Sagittarius 03 Rx
Vesta:10 Virgo 08

Eris:24 Aries 29

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:6
Water:4

Cardinal:4
Fixed:4
Mutable:11



 
If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link Currentplanetarypositions.com
 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 
For Your Local Time and Date

May 19 Northern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

May 19, 2021
01:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)Sun:28 Taurus 46
Moon:25 Leo 37
Mercury:20 Gemini 30
Venus:12 Gemini 51
Mars:15 Cancer 52
Jupiter:00 Pisces 35
Saturn:13 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 45
Neptune:22 Pisces 50
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42 Rx
True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 48
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 31 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):23 Taurus 22
Chiron:11 Aries 36
Ceres:04 Taurus 22
Pallas:20 Pisces 47
Juno:20 Sagittarius 19 Rx
Vesta:09 Virgo 51
Eris:24 Aries 28
Fire:4
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:4Cardinal:4
Fixed:6
Mutable:9

 

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link 

Currentplanetarypositions.com

 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link  For Your Local Time and Date

May 19 Moon Goddess’ Current Phase

Today the Moon will be in a First Quarter phase. This phase occurs roughly 7 days after the New Moon when the moon is one quarter of the way through its orbit around the earth. Exactly half the moon will be illuminated and half dark. On the day of the First Quarter phase the moon is high overhead at sunset and is visible until mid-night when it sets in the west. The First Quarter phase is a one-day event and in the following days enters a Waxing Gibbous phase becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.

Visit the May 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

First Quarter Phase

The First Quarter on May 19 has an illumination of 47%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On May 19 the Moon is 7.09 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

From Moongiant.com
You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

19 May Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  


The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 9:00 PM.

19 May (18) 2021
10:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Taurus 10
Moon:17 Leo 31
Mercury:19 Gemini 59
Venus:12 Gemini 05
Mars:15 Cancer 29
Jupiter:00 Pisces 31
Saturn:13 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 43
Neptune:22 Pisces 49
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42 Rx

True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 48
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 33 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):23 Taurus 18

Chiron:11 Aries 34
Ceres:04 Taurus 07
Pallas:20 Pisces 39
Juno:20 Sagittarius 26 Rx
Vesta:09 Virgo 44

Eris:24 Aries 28

Fire:4
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:4

Cardinal:4
Fixed:6
Mutable:9


If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link Currentplanetarypositions.com
 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 
For Your Local Time and Date

 

18 May Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  


The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 9:00 PM.

18 May (17) 2021
10:00 pm GMT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:27 Taurus 12
Moon:04 Leo 49
Mercury:19 Gemini 06
Venus:10 Gemini 51
Mars:14 Cancer 52
Jupiter:00 Pisces 25
Saturn:13 Aquarius 30
Uranus:11 Taurus 39
Neptune:22 Pisces 48
Pluto:26 Capricorn 43 Rx

True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 47
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 36 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):23 Taurus 11

Chiron:11 Aries 32
Ceres:03 Taurus 44
Pallas:20 Pisces 25
Juno:20 Sagittarius 38 Rx
Vesta:09 Virgo 32

Eris:24 Aries 28

Fire:4
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:4

Cardinal:4
Fixed:6
Mutable:9

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link Currentplanetarypositions.com

 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 

For Your Local Time and Date

May 17 Moon Goddess’ Current Phase

Today the Moon will be in a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the May 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on May 17 has an illumination of 27%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On May 17 the Moon is 5.17 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

From Moongiant.com

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

17 May Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  


The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 10:00 PM.

17 May (16) 2021
10:00 pm GMT 8:00 AM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)Sun:26 Taurus 15
Moon:22 Cancer 25
Mercury:18 Gemini 08
Venus:09 Gemini 37
Mars:14 Cancer 16
Jupiter:00 Pisces 19
Saturn:13 Aquarius 29
Uranus:11 Taurus 36
Neptune:22 Pisces 47
Pluto:26 Capricorn 43 Rx
True Lunar Node:10 Gemini 46
Mean Lunar Node:11 Gemini 40 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):23 Taurus 05
Chiron:11 Aries 29
Ceres:03 Taurus 20
Pallas:20 Pisces 12
Juno:20 Sagittarius 48 Rx
Vesta:09 Virgo 20
Eris:24 Aries 27
Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:5Cardinal:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:9

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link Currentplanetarypositions.com

 To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link  For Your Local Time and Date


 

April 9 Moon Goddess’ Current Phase

Today the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the April 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on April 9 has an illumination of 6%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On April 9 the Moon is 27.13 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

From Moongiant.com
You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

8 April Southern Hemisphere Custom Planetary Positions

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The date in ( ) is because of us posting this from the Northern Hemisphere. So this post goes live at 8:00 AM AEDT on the date before the month. The date inside the ( ) is the date we have to use to get the timing right for you. That is also why the GMT time that shows at 9:00 PM.

8 April (07) 2021
10:00 am GMT 8:00 AM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:17 Aries 48
Moon:24 Aquarius 25
Mercury:05 Aries 57
Venus:20 Aries 54
Mars:20 Gemini 18
Jupiter:24 Aquarius 27
Saturn:11 Aquarius 51
Uranus:09 Taurus 21
Neptune:21 Pisces 39
Pluto:26 Capricorn 42

True Lunar Node:12 Gemini 25 Rx

Mean Lunar Node:13 Gemini 45 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Taurus 42
Chiron:09 Aries 23

Ceres:17 Aries 44
Pallas:09 Pisces 38
Juno:23 Sagittarius 58
Vesta:07 Virgo 22 Rx

Eris:24 Aries 02
Fire:7
Earth:4
Air:6
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7
If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this
link Currentplanetarypositions.com
To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link For Your Local Time and Date