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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: New Moon Friday February 9th Constellation Capricorn
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Earth near entering boundary of Leo constellation from constellation Cancer --New Moon-- FRI, 09 FEB 2024 AT 17:00 CST (23:00 UTC) Dominic Ford, Editor From the Moon feed The Moon will pass close to the Sun and become lost in the its glare for a few days. The Moon's orbital motion carries it around the Earth once every four weeks, and as a result its phases cycle from new moon, through first quarter, full moon and last quarter, back to new moon once every 29.5 days. This motion also means that the Moon travels more than 12° across the sky from one night to the next, causing it to rise and set nearly an hour later each day. More information about the Moon's phases is available here. At new moon, the Earth, Moon and Sun all lie in a roughly straight line, with the Moon in the middle, appearing in front of the Sun's glare. In this configuration, we see almost exactly the opposite half of the Moon to that which is illuminated by the Sun, making it doubly unobservable because the side we see is unilluminated. --A thin crescent-- The months around the spring equinox – March and April in the northern hemisphere – present the best opportunity to see a very thin crescent Moon immediately after sunset in the days following new moon. This comes about because the Moon appears higher in the dusk sky sooner after new moon in the spring months as compared to other times of year. The inclination of the ecliptic to the horizon. The inclination of the ecliptic to the horizon changes over the course of the year, affecting how high objects appear in the sky. At all times, the Moon lies close to a line across the sky called the ecliptic, which is shown in yellow in the planetarium above. This line traces the path that the Sun takes through the zodiacal constellations every year, and shows the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Since all the planets circle the Sun in almost exactly the same plane, they too move across the sky following the same line. When the Moon is widely separated from the Sun, it is separated from it along the line of the ecliptic. But, at different times of year, the ecliptic meets the horizon at different angles at sunset. This means that a certain number of days after new moon, the Moon appears at different altitudes above the horizon at different times of year. At sunset, the ecliptic makes its steepest angle to the horizon at the spring equinox – in March in the northern hemisphere, and in September in the southern hemisphere. Conversely, it meets the horizon at its shallowest angle at the autumn equinox. And so, very thin crescent moons are most visible in the evening sky in the spring. The inclination of the ecliptic plane to the horizon at Austin varies between 83° (sunset at the spring equinox) and 36° (sunset at the autumn equinox). On February 9, the ecliptic is inclined at 76° to the western sunset horizon. --The exact moment of new moon-- At the moment of closest approach, it will pass within 4°14' of the Sun, in the constellation Capricornus. The celestial coordinates of the Sun and Moon will be: Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Angular Size The Moon 21h36m40s 18°43'S Capricornus 33'17" Sun (centre) 21h30m 14°42'S Capricornus 32'25" |
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From: sher, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: New Moon Friday February 9th Constellation Capricorn
| Eve. What constellation will the earth be in on April 8, 2024? 🙏🏼❤️ |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: New Moon Friday February 9th Constellation Capricorn
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From: sher, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: New Moon Friday February 9th Constellation Capricorn
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Epiphany moment? In Bottecelli’s spring, middle sister could represent New Moon between April (Venus) and May (mercury) because she is looking away? The new moon in April 2024 is the 8th, same as the total eclipse, April 8… 8,8? |
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From: sher, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: New Moon Friday February 9th Constellation Capricorn
| 🙏🏼❤️ |
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