Tag: Jupiter

  • Wed – 2 Apr 2025

    Day 92 of year
    Sunrise 7:08 – Sunset 19:54 – Sunrise tomorrow 7:06
    LOD 12:44 – LON 11:15

    Day 4 of lunar cycle
    Moon in Gemini ☾♊︎
    Conjunction Jupiter and Moon ☌♃☾
    Moonrise today 9:34 – Moonset tomorrow 1:53
    Moonrise tomorrow 10:28

    On this date
    Charles Hall patented aluminum, 1889
    CN Tower completed in Toronto, 1975
    Cat Merlin purred at 67.8 decibels, 2015

    National Walking Day

    A country man between two lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Friday- 21 Mar 2025

    Day 80 of year – Day 22 of lunar cycle

    Sunrise 7:30 – Sunset 19:40 – Sunrise tomorrow 7:28

    LOD 12:07 – LON 11:52

    Moonrise today 2:25 – Moonset today 10:55 – Moonrise tomorrow 3:23

    On this date in 1851 Yosemite Valley was discovered in California

    Today is one of the most favorable days this month to

    • dry fruit, vegetables, or meat
    • straighten hair
    • go camping
    • prune to discourage growth
    • demolition
    • wash windows
    • kill plant pests
    • cut hair to slow growth
    • quit smoking
    • cut hair to slow growth
    • wash wooden floors
    • advertise to sell

    2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac, pp 226-7

    2025 Farmers’ Almanac, pp 120-3

    Zodiac Outlook

    ObjectZodiac Position
    SunAries
    MoonSagittarius until tomorrow morning at 1:29 when it enters Capricorn
    Mercury Aries (retrograde)
    Venus Aries (retrograde)
    Mars Cancer
    Jupiter Gemini
    Saturn Pisces
    Uranus Taurus
    Neptune Pisces (Aries after March 30)
    Pluto Aquarius until March 8, 2043

  • March 6, 2025

    65th day of the year and 7th of the lunar cycle: 1st quarter.
    The sun will set at 6:23 and rise at 6:50; length of night: 12hr, 27min.
    Tonight a conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon will occur. The moon will set at 2:58 AM and rise at 11:28 AM.
    On this date in 1475 the artist Michelangelo was born.

    Speaking of Orion, it contains more bright stars than any other constellation. Sitting on the celestial equator, Orion is visible from everywhere on Earth. Rigel (Arabic for “foot”) is the brightest star in the constellation and the 7th brightest in the sky. Historically it has been very important for navigation, as it is visible from every ocean in the world. It is the most luminous star in our region of the galaxy.

  • March 5

    March 5: 64th day of the year and 6th day of the lunar cycle.
    The sunset will occur at 6:23 and rise at 6:52; length of night*: 12hr, 30min.
    Tonight in the southern sky, the moon meets Jupiter with Taurus’s famous orange star Aldebaran below them. The moon will set at 1:48 AM and rise again at 10:33 AM, having passed its first quarter of this cycle at 9:31 AM tomorrow morning.
    Today is Ash Wednesday. On this date in 1950 calculations for the first computerized (ENIAC) weather forecast began.

    *The author would like to note, that the sunset/sunrise info given in the March 3 update was incorrect due to human error interpreting the Almanac’s system presenting the information. The actual sunset/sunrise times for that day were 6:20 PM and 6:55 AM; length of night: 12hr, 35min.

    So the nights have only shortened five minutes over the past three days, not the nine that would be presumed had one calculated based on this erroneous info. The author deeply regrets any harm this incorrect reporting may have caused you, your families, your animals, or your plants.

    ** Shit! Today’s sunset is at 6:22. This is Ogden from the Farmer’s Almanac. Too many tables and dates and numbers.c. Too many tables and dates and numbers.