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Watch For a Daytime Moon




Peter Lowenstein caught the daytime moon in its waning gibbous phase from Mutare, Zimbabwe. He said: “Three-quarters of an hour after sunrise, I photographed the daytime moon descending toward the top of a flowering African Tulip (Spathodia campanulta) tree.”

Daytime moon is up after sunrise now

This month’s full moon came on the night of April 23, 2024. By April 25, the moon is in a waning gibbous phase, rising later and later each successive night. For those at temperate latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s an especially long time between moonrises on successive evenings around now. The April 25 moon will rise more than two hours after sunset. The April 26 moon will rise roughly to three hours after sunset.

And, of course, a later rising time means a later setting time. That’s why the mornings after a full moon are a good time to catch a nearly full daytime moon over your western horizon after sunrise.

The moon is up in the daytime half of the time. But, because it’s pale against the blue sky, it’s not as noticeable during the day as at night. Still, there are certain windows each month during which the daytime moon is most noticeable. The rest of April 2024 presents one of those windows, a good time to watch for a daytime moon.


April 26 and 27 Mornings, Moon Near Antares





By the mornings of April 26 and 27, 2024 (or late evening April 25 and 26), the moon will be near the bright star Antares in the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. At that time, the moon will be rising a little before midnight at mid-northern latitudes. And it’ll still be up after the sun rises, but appearing thinner in phase and higher in the sky with each new dawn.

Because of Earth’s motion around the sun, Antares – like all the fixed stars (stars that appear not to move relative to one another) – will rise about four minutes earlier each evening. Meanwhile, because of its own motion around Earth, the moon will be rising later and later each evening and thus moving away from Antares’ location in the sky.

Published 24th April 2024 – Earthsky.org
https://earthsky.org/tonight/see-the-daytime-moon/

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SIMULTANEOUS SOLAR FLARES

What are the odds? On April 23rd (0330 UT), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected four simultaneous explosions from widely-separated areas on the sun.





The quadruple blast included three sunspots (small circles) and a magnetic filament (big circle), all erupting within minutes of one another hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart. (The filament eruption is more obvious in this 304 Å movie.) Their combined X-ray output added up to category M3.4.

Events like this are called "sympathetic solar flares"--that is, pairs of sunspots erupting at the same time even though they are far apart. Long ago, researchers assumed sympathetic flares must be a freak coincidence, but a 2002 study proved otherwise. Some sunspots are linked by nearly-invisible magnetic loops in the sun's corona. Instabilities can rapidly travel from one to another, creating a chain reaction of explosions.

This sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet covering much of the sun's Earth-facing hemisphere. It is reminiscent of the Great Eruption of August 1, 2010, which included more than a dozen shock waves, flares, and filament eruptions spanning 180 degrees of solar longitude.

Will any of the debris hit Earth? SOHO coronagraph images of the blast are now available, but unclear; the results will surely be known later in the week.



https://www.spaceweather.com/

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Liminal Space in Early CGI | Liminal Dreams



Liminal Dreams drifts into liminal space with this collection of early CGI.

• 1987 FABRICATED RHYTHM SUPER MUSIC  
• Dynamic simulation of flexible object
• Cornell in Perspective (1977) 
• Rendering of a planned highway (1961)
• Сreating realistic 3d surroundings
   
• Music: Don’t Wake Me Up (Let Me Dream) by Louis Katzman’s Orchestra

(9:40)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SCOxW1n3cRg

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Hi, it's me. - V1

After a period of radio silence, the furthest reaching man-made object in the Cosmos recently checked in, due to some hackers' wet dreams performed by NASA engineers.

https://twitter.com/NASAVoyager/stat...54547446890633

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UFO History



Man Who's Been Abducted Reveals The Truth About Aliens

In early February 1989, a man got into his car in his native hometown, Rotorua, and drove to the city of Auckland, New Zealand. The journey from Rotorua to Auckland took 3 hours, which is normal.

When he got to his destination he was met with cheers, sadness, happiness, anxiety, and every form of positive emotion from the people that greeted him. Even the police came around to see him. He was confused with this newfound celebrity status ...

Published 3rd February 2024 (21:18)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=52LyMRO_fQI

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Hi, it's me. - V1

After a period of radio silence, the furthest reaching man-made object in the Cosmos recently checked in, due to some hackers' wet dreams performed by NASA engineers.

https://twitter.com/NASAVoyager/stat...54547446890633

V'Ger is depicted as Voyager 6 in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

10/27/11 (1:42)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ikHoBKVlCA