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pstp astro "Our NOON ANALEMMA SUNDIAL is a solar calendar. Each day the sun's path across the sky is a little higher or lower, depending on the season, than it was the day before. The rays of the sun passing through that south-facing circular window (and through the APERTURE in the pointer in that window, called a GNOMON), casts a bright spot on the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE. In the days leading to the summer solstice the spot moves closer and closer to the south wall (each day the sun is rising higher in the sky), and as we move into winter it works its way up toward the north banco (lower in the sky each day). The "lopsided 8" design in the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE is called a NOON ANALEMMA because it is derived from the path of the noontime solar spot throughout the year." , Sundials and Latitude http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Thomas Page

Winter solstice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , pstp 12 -25 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... , Winter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Hibernation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Hibernia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , - Thomas Page

Equinox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Spring (season) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2011... , http://www.definity-systems.net/~apw... , - Thomas Page

Cross-quarter day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , May Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Cross-quarter day late summer - fall , Lammas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , sort shortly after equinox 9 -29 Michaelmas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... In medieval England, Michaelmas marked the ending and beginning of the husbandman's year, George C. Homans observes: "at that time harvest was over, and the bailiff or reeve of the manor would be making out the accounts for the year. ~ Michael, Gabriel and Raphael,[3] and often, Uriel ~ Michaelmas is still celebrated in the Waldorf schools, which celebrate it as the "festival of strong will" during the autumnal equinox. Rudolf Steiner considered it the second most important festival after Easter , Thomas Hardy Novels come to mind? [[[[ 1 -20 http://biodynamics2024.com.au/ http://youtu.be/ffPxNsRRJSw https://www.biodynamics.com/steiner... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Cross-quarter day fall autumn ; Oct 31 Halloween Samhain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Nov 1 Day of the Dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... All Saints' Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Nov 2 All Souls' Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 11 -4 Protestant Protest ...sort? Nov 5 Guy Fawkes Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Claims that Guy Fawkes Night was a Protestant replacement for older customs like Samhain are disputed... 11 -1 http://blog.dictionary.com/hallowe... - Thomas Page

The Twelfth Night of Christmas is always on the evening of 5 January, but the Twelfth Day can either precede or follow the Twelfth Night according to which Christian tradition is followed.[1] Twelfth Night is followed by the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January. In some traditions, the first day of Epiphany (6 January) and the twelfth day of Christmas overlap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , sort jan 3 Genevieve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , ( sort Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye http://youtu.be/SIHtFySoo6U ) ]] [ 12 -24 Wise men start following star on what date ? Jan 6 visit Epiphany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not … But do I thus measure, O my God, and know not what I measure?” St. Augustine: Confessions XI. http://riowang.blogspot.de/2013... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... , 1 -23 http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki... http://www.youtube.com/watch... , fine tuning with lenses ? for overcast ? > sort Navigational_equipment , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ,http://www.polarization.com/viking... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.nordskip.com/vkarlse... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011... , Magnifying glass to ignite noon signal canon feature ?. , 1 -26 sort to ? granny ? lunch signal Horses gallop in snow to dinner bell ringing http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch... , 5 -12 sort http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007... - Thomas Page

Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2] In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans, the radical reformers of their age, wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Advent calendar Many take the form of a large rectangular card with "windows" of which there are usually 24: one for each day of December leading up to Christmas Day. The doors are opened starting with the first one. Consecutive doors are opened every day leading up to Christmas. The calendar windows open to reveal an image, poem, a portion of a story (such as the story of the Nativity of Jesus) or a small gift, such as a toy or a chocolate item. Some calendars are strictly religious, whereas others are secular in content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Advent 2013: 1 December - ) Advent is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern churches' equivalent of Advent is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs in both length and observances and does not begin the church year, which starts instead on September 1.[1] At least in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterian and Methodist calendars, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before December 25, which is the Sunday between November 27 and December 3 inclusive.[2] Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used to refer to the Second Coming of Christ. For Christians, the season of Advent anticipates the coming of Christ from two different perspectives. The season offers the opportunity to share in the ancient longing for the coming of the Messiah, and to be alert for his Second Coming. [ Advent_Sunday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Adventists - Thomas Page

2 -1 Imbolc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Groundhog Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 9 -13 http://www.vulture.com/2014... (2 -25 http://www.newyorker.com/archive... ) [[ 2 -22 date determination of Ragnarök ? http://jezebel.com/save-th... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 2 -25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ Terminalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Terminus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , who presided over boundaries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... . ~ The festival of the Terminalia was celebrated a. d. VII. Kal. Mart., or the 23d of February on the day before the Regifugium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

1 -24 Tet (2014 date 31 January) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Buddhist_holidays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... recap Lunisolar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ 1 -30 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 7 -29 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki... Japanese Calendar ? 12 -28 Bodhi_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 3 -24 http://earthsky.org/human-w... - Thomas Page

1 -24 Enoch calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Noah ... - Thomas Page

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Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 1 May, or about halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The Interregnum was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660 which marked the start of the Restoration. During the Interregnum England was under various forms of republican government, for which see Commonwealth of England; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... May Day was abolished and its celebration banned by puritan parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of Charles II in 1660.[7] May 1, 1707, was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... International Workers' Day [[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

6 -20 What do Republicans have against May Day? 7 -4 Common_Sense_Realism-Fundamentalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Midsummer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Inti_Raymi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://nmai.si.edu/sites... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

7 -4 Ramadan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6-28 - 7-28 2014 https://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[[[[[ 7 -6 http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main... 7 -7 Tanabata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Unlike the equinox, the solstice time is not easy to determine. The changes in Solar declination become smaller as the sun gets closer to its maximum/minimum declination. The days before and after the solstice, the declination speed is less than 30 arcseconds per day which is less than 1⁄60 of the angular size of the sun, or the equivalent to just 2 seconds of right ascension. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6 -20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

That doesn't sound right. The sun is about a half of a degree so 30 minutes. So, 1/60th of that would be half of a minute or 30 seconds. [nevermind, I see where they are going with this.] - Back to just Joe

I'm not real clear on how declination speed translates to right ascension yet , observantion method ? Sun shot surveying https://friendfeed.com/citizen... ? Most modern total station instruments measure angles by means of electro-optical scanning of extremely precise digital bar-codes etched on rotating glass cylinders or discs within the instrument. The best quality total stations are capable of measuring angles to 0.5 arc-second. Inexpensive "construction grade" total stations can generally measure angles to 5 or 10 arc-seconds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... BURT’S SOLAR COMPASS http://www.neafsolar.com/bb... Sort http://www.sunsurveyor.com/ sort http://www.cadastral.com/cad-pol... http://community.pobonline.com/forums... [[[[[ 6 -20 http://calgary.rasc.ca/radecl... http://www.cliffsnotes.com/science... http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://earthsky.org/todays-... - Thomas Page

Academic Time [ semesters Ect [[ student age grouping [[[ rituals [[[[ time management goals , indoctrination , warehousing , biological events , another brick in the wall , having fun , http://www.c-span.org/video... 9 -8 http://www.pbs.org/newshou... //(({{ sort to ? rural school bus ? http://jrre.vmhost.psu.edu/wp-cont... 3/4 pt on hour long route 15 min to 45 min home aprox [[[[[[ 9 -1 stint |||| dazed and confused , animal house , road trips |||| older wiser return to ... - Thomas Page

Ritu_(Indian_season) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Hindu units of time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 9 -16 http://buddhism.about.com/od... http://www.ibps.org/english... - Thomas Page

Sort http://www.kayas.ca/sixseas... - Thomas Page

Analemma crossover point date. sort On every day of the year except two, April 13 and August 31, the sun occupies a unique position in the sky at noon. But at noon on April 13 and noon on August 31, the sun will be at the same point in the dome of the sky. It is a phenomenon that almost no one celebrates. http://www.field-notebook.com/... sort sort http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorio... [ Serotinal (late summer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ): Generally begins mid to late August. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sept and oct curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... < direction of travel , on analemma sundial clockwise on top counterclockwise btm ? Ephemeris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 9 -1 http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT... 9 -2 http://softwareunderstanding.com/hiking-... http://www.cerrilloshills.org/history... Buck Dent, a local sculptor, constructed an outdoor shelter that doubles as an analemma. http://sundials.org/index... http://www.ukho.gov.uk/HMNAO... - Thomas Page

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11 -15 http://youtu.be/Mn4_40h... venus mayan codex - Thomas Page

Runic_calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Runes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Metonic_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... For astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, "nineteen years") is a period of very close to 19 years that is remarkable for being nearly a common multiple of the solar year and the synodic (lunar) month. The Greek astronomer Meton of Athens (fifth century BC) observed that a period of 19 years is almost exactly equal to 235 synodic months and, rounded to full days, counts 6,940 days. The difference between the two periods (of 19 years and 235 synodic months) is only a few hours, depending on the definition of the year. Considering a year to be 1⁄19 of this 6,940-day cycle gives a year length of 365 + 1⁄4 + 1⁄76 days (the unrounded cycle is much more accurate), which is slightly more than 12 synodic months. To keep a 12-month lunar year in pace with the solar year, an intercalary 13th month would have to be added on seven occasions during the nineteen-year period (235 = 19 × 12 + 7). When Meton introduced the cycle around 432 BC, it was already known by Babylonian astronomers. A mechanical computation of the cycle is built into the Antikythera mechanism. The cycle was used in the Babylonian calendar, ancient Chinese calendar systems (the 'Rule Cycle' 章) and the medieval computus (i.e. the calculation of the date of Easter). It regulates the 19-year cycle of intercalary months of the Hebrew calendar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... At the time of Meton, axial precession had not yet been discovered, and he could not distinguish between sidereal years (currently: 365.256363 days) and tropical years (currently: 365.242190 days). Most calendars, like the commonly used Gregorian calendar, are based on the tropical year and maintain the seasons at the same calendar times each year. Nineteen tropical years are about two hours shorter than 235 synodic months. The Metonic cycle's error is, therefore, one full day every 219 years, or 12.4 parts per million. 19 tropical years = 6,939.602 days (12 × 354-day years + 7 × 384-day years + 3.6 days). 235 synodic months (lunar phases) = 6,939.688 days (Metonic period by definition). 254 sidereal months (lunar orbits) = 6,939.702 days (19 + 235 = 254). 255 draconic months (lunar nodes) = 6,939.1161 days. Note that the 19-year cycle is also close (to somewhat more than half a day) to 255 draconic months, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... so it is also an eclipse cycle, which lasts only for about 4 or 5 recurrences of eclipses. The Octon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is 1⁄5 of a Metonic cycle (47 synodic months, 3.8 years), and it recurs about 20 to 25 cycles. This cycle seems to be a coincidence. The periods of the Moon's orbit around the Earth and the Earth's orbit around the Sun are believed to be independent, and do not have any known physical resonance. An example of a non-coincidental cycle is the orbit of Mercury, with its 3:2 spin-orbit resonance. A lunar year of 12 synodic months is about 354 days, approximately 11 days short of the "365-day" solar year. Therefore, for a lunisolar calendar, every 2 to 3 years there is a difference of more than a full lunar month between the lunar and solar years, and an extra (embolismic) month needs to be inserted (intercalation). The Athenians initially seem not to have had a regular means of intercalating a 13th month; instead, the question of when to add a month was decided by an official. Meton's discovery made it possible to propose a regular intercalation scheme. The Babylonians seem to have introduced this scheme around 500 BC, thus well before Meton. - Thomas Page

Saros_(astronomy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Eclipse_cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 3 -20 http://earthsky.org/space... [[[[[[ 12 -26 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... " I Just Called To Say I Love You" http://youtu.be/ezD9fndbeyw No New Year's Day to celebrate No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away No first of spring No song to sing In fact here's just another ordinary day No April rain No flowers bloom No wedding Saturday within the month of June But what it is, is something true Made up of these three words that I must say to you I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart No summer's high No warm July No harvest moon to light one tender August night No autumn breeze No falling leaves Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies No Libra sun No Halloween No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring But what it is, though old so new To fill your heart like no three words could ever do I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care, I do I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care, I do I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart, of my heart I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care, I do I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart, baby of my heart - Thomas Page

Yom_Kippur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ 10 -16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Karaites use the observational form of the Hebrew calendar ~ Under that system, a new month (Rosh Chodesh) commences with the observation of a new moon in Israel, and the start of a new year in the first biblical month is based upon the observation of the agricultural stage of ripeness of the barley (called the Aviv stage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] 10 -13 Columbus_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://friendfeed.com/biograp... http://theoatmeal.com/comics... - Thomas Page

Hanukkah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 12 -22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... { Exodus:_Gods_and_Kings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ The winter solstice is celebrated by many people around the world as the beginning of the return of the sun, and darkness turning into light. The Talmud recognizes the winter solstice as "Tekufat Tevet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... In China, the Dongzhi Festival http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is celebrated on the Winter Solstice by families getting together and eating special festive food. - Thomas Page

2 -2 Sol Invictus = Roman Winter Solstice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] [ 2 -18 Lichun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ JPL_Horizons_On-Line_Ephemeris_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Ecliptic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 3 -11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

North Korean Holidays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Cuban Holidays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

12 -23 Context ] [ sort, Isochronous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 1 -26 CBS Sunday morning Stonehenge http://www.cbsnews.com/news... http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows... 2 -18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

"Event" ] [ Syncretism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

3 -1 Ag Solar Soil Moisture [ Meterologic Event Average - range dates - Thomas Page

3 -1 Ag Agronomy Scheduling [ Tillage [ Planting Date Targets - Thomas Page

Angels dancing on the head of a pin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Computus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Easter_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Following the Council of Nicaea, the date for Easter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... was completely divorced from the Jewish calendar and its computations for Passover. Thereafter, in principle, Easter fell on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the Northern spring equinox (the so-called Paschal Full Moon). However, the vernal equinox and the full moon were not determined by astronomical observation. Instead, the Spring Equinox was fixed to fall on the 21st day of March, while the full moon (known as the ecclesiastical full moon) was fixed at 14 days after the beginning of the ecclesiastical lunar month (known as the ecclesiastical new moon). Easter thus falls on the Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon. The computus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is the procedure of determining the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March and the difficulty arose from doing this over the span of centuries without accurate means of measuring the precise solar or lunar years. The model that was worked out assumes that 19 tropical years have the same duration as 235 synodic months (modern value: 234.997).[1] - Thomas Page

Lunar New Year, date variation, Range Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ] Fixed_holidays_(on_non-Gregorian_calendars) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ correlation to Hebrew - Lent events, days variation between lunar new year and ash wednesday ? { Gregorian dates ? [ :Moveable_holidays_(Easter_date_based) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [({ http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/2015... http://www.naic.edu/~gibson... http://www.aacps.org/admin... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news... [[[[ You'll find that Fat Tuesday http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/mgdates... can be any Tuesday between Feb. 3 and March 9. Carnival celebration starts on Jan. 6, the Twelfth Night (feast of Epiphany), and picks up speed through midnight on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Feb. 3 and March 9 ~ ~ January 21 and February 20 - Thomas Page

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