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Category: APOD

Odds and Ends

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 catholicfictioncatholicscience1 Comment

Another lovely APOD Jupiter and Venus picture ... The Astronomy Picture Of the Day website has a new glorious picture of Jupiter and Venus together in the sky, along with a telescope, and children being shown this wonder. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230315.html ~*~*~*~ I got to thinking about Andrew II of Hungary, again. He seemed to be the [...]

Posted in APOD, Dante, Saint Elizabeth, Venus

Jupiter, Venus, and the ecliptic

March 10, 2023 catholicfictioncatholicscience4 Comments

(The two little crescents in the above picture are the planets Jupiter and Venus. Their shape is an artifact of my camera and blowing up the picture beyond what it can manage.) There are two definitions of the ecliptic that are easy to find. One says that the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's [...]

Posted in APOD, Dante, Venus

Saint Lucy and her feast

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Last week I pointed out that Saint Lucy's feast day (December 13) is celebrated differently in Sweden and in Sicily. Sicily has processions and food, but Sweden has candles and breakfast in bed. Generally (meaning if you look it up on Google), this Swedish idea is attributed to the "fact" that Saint Lucy's feast day [...]

Posted in APOD, Gregorian calendar
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