Evolving yet again! Vol 7 Issue 3

“All Time is Now”

 Greetings!

Yes, Turtle Time is evolving yet again!  So what is going to be new?

My plans for Turtle Time:

• Regular Posting! (Yes, I know, it’s very scarey!)
• Shift of focus: More focus on more diverse topics.
• Reviews of products, etc. that I think are useful and/or interesting.
• More interactivity (web 2.0) such as polls, etc.

As always, your input and comments are invaluable in helping me know what you are interested in hearing/ reading about.

The format will change a bit…this blog has been around in one form or another for 7 years. (Really? )

So, without further ado….

Let’s take a look at the date for the next full moon and the name for this moon:

June 7, 2009: Full Strawberry Moon. 

As we cast our eyes to the skies here is what they can tell us:

June 2009

Venus reaches its greatest elongation and appears 46 degrees to the right of the rising Sun in the predawn sky on the 5th. The planet loses nearly half its brilliance this month, fading from -4.7 to a “merely brilliant” magnitude -4.2. It sidles close to Mars as the two cross into Aries and spend the month together in the east an hour before dawn. On the 19th, the pair, Earth’s two closest neighbors, hover beneath the crescent Moon. Saturn remains nicely up until midnight. On the 23rd, Pluto reaches opposition. After angling from Serpens through Ophiuchus during the past year, it has entered Sagittarius, its new home until the year 2025. Summer begins with the solstice on the 21st, at 1:46 A.M.

We are also in for a couple of eclipses during July!

July 7: Penumbral eclipse of the Moon. This eclipse will be fully visible from western and central parts of North America as well as Alaska and Hawaii. The Moon enters penumbra at 1:33 A.M. PDT and leaves penumbra at 3:44 A.M. PDT. The eclipse will be visible from the East Coast as the Moon sets.

July 21-22: Total eclipse of the Sun. This eclipse will not be visible from North America. However, a very small partial eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Hawaii on July 21 at around 5:49 P.M. HAST. (The total eclipse will be visible from India and China. The maximum duration of totality will be 6.7 minutes, making this the longest total eclipse that will occur in the 21st century.)

Special Thanks to The Old Farmers’ Almanac

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