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Category: calendar, seasons, time

The last high tide

This weekend’s high tides won’t really be the last, but they may be Continue reading “The last high tide”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-08-122018-08-12Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, timeTags eclipses, Moon, tides1 Comment on The last high tide

Daylight Shifted

The night between Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25, was shortened Continue reading “Daylight Shifted”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-03-252018-03-25Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, timeTags astronomy, daylight saving time, planets, time4 Comments on Daylight Shifted

Thanksgiving across the pond

We Americans sailed up the Thames to get to a Thanksgiving Day service.

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Author GuyPosted on 2017-11-232017-11-23Categories architecture, calendar, seasons, time, miscellaneous, placesTags St Paul's cathedral, Thanksgiving8 Comments on Thanksgiving across the pond

The Eclipse is Just Two Lunations Away

What is new in this view of Friday’s evening sky?

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Author GuyPosted on 2017-06-232017-06-23Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, timeTags astronomy, calendars, eclipses, Moon2 Comments on The Eclipse is Just Two Lunations Away

Palm Sunday

St. Paul’s Cathedral is in the dense heart of the City of London, but since 2000 there has been a bracingly open way to approach it: along the Thames in one of the river buses, then, from the Globe Theatre on the south bank, across the Millennium Footbridge.

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Clock time and the wisdom of babes

Clocks were turned one hour forward in Europe Continue reading “Clock time and the wisdom of babes”

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Author GuyPosted on 2017-03-272017-03-27Categories calendar, seasons, time18 Comments on Clock time and the wisdom of babes

How I spent spring-equinox day

There is a place called Cheam, Continue reading “How I spent spring-equinox day”

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Spring coming, Venus going

The spring or vernal equinox is coming, on Monday March 20, Continue reading “Spring coming, Venus going”

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Author GuyPosted on 2017-03-19Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, timeTags astronomy, equinox, occultations, seasons4 Comments on Spring coming, Venus going

Groundhog Day weather

Good morning, Tor, it’s your twelfth birthday, and also Continue reading “Groundhog Day weather”

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Author GuyPosted on 2017-02-022017-02-02Categories calendar, seasons, time, climate, environmentTags calendar; weather4 Comments on Groundhog Day weather

Leap Second

Today is one second longer than other days.  2016 will be longer than other years by one day plus one second.


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