| Navigation by
solar and stellar sightings have been guiding sailors for hundreds of years
while the location of the moon above governs the tides that we sail in
and the currents that either carry us or hinder our passages. |
| First things first. Hungry?
Moonpies |
Moon Names |
Moon
Phases,
waxing and waning, rising and setting,
get the scoop |
January
- Old Moon, Moon after Yule |
About
Water Levels, Tides & Currents what makes the tides,
how are tide predicted and how is a tide measured. |
February
- Sucker-Spawning Moon, Snow Moon |
| Tide
Tables for Baja California |
March - Lenten Moon, Sap Moon,
Crow Moon |
| Tide
Predictions |
April - Budding Moon, Egg
Moon, Grass Moon |
Sun
or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year, this
page provides
a way for you to obtain a table of the times of sunrise/sunset,
moonrise/moonset, or the beginning and end of twilight,
for one year. |
May
- Planting Moon, Milk Moon
June - Rose Moon, Flower Moon, |
Interactive
Marine Buoy Observations, direct from NOAA and
the National Weather
Service, USA, searchable by location |
Strawberry Moon
July - Thunder Moon, Hay Moon |
National
Geographic’s Virtual Solar System, your chance to
discover the
wonders of our solar system in a spectacular 3-D
environment. Take a fly-by
tour of the sun and each planet in
its orbit. |
August
- Green Corn Moon, Grain Moon, Rice-Making Moon
September
- Harvest |
| Earth
& Sky daily report, great information |
Moon, Fruit Moon |
Visible
Stars Chart, interactive to your location, shows you
where Uranus,
the rest of the planets and the stars will be tonight |
October - Hunters Moon, Falling-Leaves Moon |
Astronomical Society of Victoria of
Melbourne, Australia
(Includes pages for the southern night sky from month to month
and a list of southern hemisphere meteor showers.) |
November
- Frosty Moon, Beaver Moon,
December
- Before Yule |
AstroWeb,a
great way to find your way around the cosmos
through the net |
Moon
The Sacramento Bee |
Get
Lost in the Stars, a great place to find "Pretty Pictures"
of what's
up |
Blue
Moon - 2 Full Moons within one month |
Go with the big guys, JPL's
got the ticket (Jet Propolsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California) |
NOAA's Geostationary
Satellite Server, Vapor, infrared and visibility satellite
images, the newest, the NOAA-K, now NOAA-15, satellite was launched May
13, 1998 at 8:52 PDT (11:52 Eastern Time) from VAFB. The spacecraft was
injected in a nominal polar orbit (450 x 450 nautical miles) with an inclination
of 98.7 degrees. |
