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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.
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| First things first. Hungry?
Moonpies |
Moon Names |
Moon
Phases,
waxing and waning, rising and setting,
get the scoop |
January
- Old Moon, Moon after Yule
February
- Sucker-Spawning Moon, Snow Moon
March - Lenten Moon, Sap Moon,
Crow Moon
April - Budding Moon, Egg
Moon, Grass Moon
May
- Planting Moon, Milk Moon
June - Rose Moon, Flower Moon, Strawberry Moon
July - Thunder Moon, Hay Moon
August
- Green Corn Moon, Grain Moon, Rice-Making Moon
September
- Harvest
Moon, Fruit Moon
October - Hunters Moon, Falling-Leaves Moon
November
- Frosty Moon, Beaver Moon
December
- Before Yule
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About
Water Levels, Tides & Currents what makes the tides,
how are tide predicted and how is a tide measured. |
| Tide
Tables for Baja California |
| Tide
Predictions |
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. |
Interactive
Marine Buoy Observations, direct from NOAA and
the National Weather
Service, USA, searchable by location |
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. |
| Earth
& Sky daily report, great information |
Visible
Stars Chart, interactive to your location, shows you
where Uranus,
the rest of the planets and the stars will be tonight |
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.) |
AstroWeb,a
great way to find your way around the cosmos
through the net |
Blue
Moon - 2 Full Moons within one month, Or is it??
I'm an engineer
& an amateur astronomer. As a volunteer for the Adler Planetarium in
Chicago, I answer many astronomical questions from the public. I ... noticed
...an erroneous definition of the Blue Moon. Last Halloween many people asked
about the Blue Moon, so I researched it then... The pervasive definition
today, which is what you have, is a blue moon is the second full moon in a
calendar month. This definition was started in an article published in the
March 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope. The author was referring to a
calendar of blue moons given in the Maine Farmer's Almanac, and misinterpreted
how the almanac determined blue moons, and simply stated that it was the
second full moon in a calendar month. The error was perpetuated by Sky &
Telescope as late as March 1999, but in May 1999 they published an
article that finally explained the on-going error. The problem is,
no one has caught on to the error. The "Maine" definition is the
blue moon is the third full moon is a tropical-calendar season having four
full moons. So first, the blue moon definition is based on the tropical year,
not the civil calendrical one (much better this way), and it does not relate
at all to a month but actually to a season. The common definition today is not
good simply because it relies on the civil calendar. For instance, many people
thought that last Halloween's full moon was a blue moon. It indeed was the
second full moon in October 2001... for New York City. But more accurately,
the full moon did not occur until after midnight in Chicago, so technically it
was the first full moon of November and the one later that month would be the blue moon. The Maine definition is more obtuse, but has a rich history and works
for any location in the world. Our thanks to Dave Bohlmann. |
Get
Lost in the Stars, a great place to find "Pretty Pictures"
of what's
up |
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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.
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On-line
Nautical Almanac, thanks to Orion |
| After all this, just what time
is it? United States Naval
Observatory time |
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