The conjunction of two broods of cicadas is going on now. It is called a super-brood. One brood has a 13 year cycle, and the other brood has a 17 year cycle. Using maxima, one can calculate the number of years for this conjunction with the least common multiple function. […]
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I write this blog entry on Tuesday April 9, 2024. It is the day after the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024. Today, a software CD that I ordered arrived. The envelope was marked “Fragile: Handle with Care”. Inside, I found a shattered disk, shattered in plastic shards. I ordered […]
SOLAR ECLIPSE APRIL 8, 2024 (45388.500000) 19.000000 -91.207250,36.622630 ELEVEN POINT STATE PARk MOON UT=19.000000 POSITION AZ 206.066919 (206.100000) EL 58.527943 (58.500000) REF USNO
It’s as easy as 123. Quick reminders. Solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024 Unix epoch end Tuesday, January 19, 2038. 03:14:07 UTC 2038-01-19
Today, outside at lunchtime at the Arch, it was a shirt sleeve day. Honestly, I can’t think of anything more satisfying than standing and playing my guitar on a beautiful sunny day. “You know I can be found sitting here, all alone, but if you can’t come around, at least […]
In which the troubadour/author/guitarist continues his constitutionally protected right to Free Speech as protected by the U.S. Bill of Rights on U.S. Federal Park Service Land and happens upon the great shadow of the Gateway Arch.
We, in Midwest America, in Missouri, in Saint Louis are in the midst of a heat wave. This week in July has had a sequence of very hot days — the mornings are hot and humid, the afternoons are like ovens, and the temperature doesn’t let up at night. I […]
Technically, Passover ends at sunset / sundown on April 13. Installing Orbtimes then one can type nicks@johndenver:~/Documents$ orbtimes Sunset local day Wednesday 19:27.015425 April 12 2023 Sunrise local day Thursday 6:29.800781 April 13 2023 I can check this against Google search which says 7:37 PM which is a ten minute discrepancy. […]
<2021-08-17 Tue> 24:21 azimuth 145 degrees calculated azimuth=188.408225 degrees clockwise from north and altitude 32.149676=degrees above horizon <2021-08-18 Wed> 23:56 local time, or 4.93 UT. Observed azimuth 160 degrees. calculation. ./orbtimes -vvv –saturn –location=”38.6N 90.2W” –date=”2021-aug-18″ -Z”4.93″ Saturn azimuth=179.058814 degree and altitude 32.602583=degrees above horizon Maybe this is Jupiter…. Jupiter […]
<2021-06-07 Mon> At about 9:30 pm, bright star near the horizon at 310 degrees. Calculated values are Venus azimuth=299.666490 degrees clockwise from north and altitude 2.450345=degrees above horizon <2021-06-13 Sun> 09:10pm CDT 295az Venus azimuth=300.215986 degrees clockwise from north and altitude 1.241584=degrees above horizon
Sat 09 Sep 2023 08:37:19 AM CDT new Debian release – Version 1.9 for Focal. Old release for Jessie is no longer available. Debian apt install instructions: apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AB406C34 Add file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nickstrauss.list : deb [ arch=amd64 ] http://apt.nick-strauss.com/apt/debian focal main apt update apt-get install orbtimes
(Here is new release with -Z option to set artificial time used in this post) orbtimes-1.9.tar.gz 563172 bytes <2020-12-20 Sun> I saw it tonight. Pretty awesome — not the closest it will be — but luckily the sky was clear. Here in Missouri it was about thirty degrees above the […]