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80° W longitude: Day and Year
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          A great circle is formed by two opposite longitudes, 80° W and 100° E. The longitude of Bangkok, Thailand serves as the date-line for Charlotte, North Carolina. Universal Time ( London ) is 5 hours and 20 minutes latter than Charlotte time. A count of nychthemerons that start with the sun's westward transit over 100° E will be called the Bangkok Date BD, related to the Julian Date JD. Here is a Julian Date converter.
JD - 1943386 13 / 18 = BD


          Equipt with the Bangkok Date, that we will now just call "D", we can find the month number M and the year number Y of a unified calendar system by 6 "master formulas". All have a value of one at the same time.

M = ( 130815 * D + 3732229 ) / 3863044

D = ( 3863044 * M - 3732229 ) / 130815

Y = ( 95 * D + 34603 ) / 34698

D = ( 34698 * Y - 34603 ) / 95

Y = ( 334 * L + 3797 ) / 4131

M = ( 4131 * Y - 3797 ) / 334


          To find the local time of the vernal equinox, we can use Y = common era year and time of spring = n / 1246 in the formula:

n = ( 302 * Y + 423 ) MOD ( 1246 )



A Brief Almanac for
CHARLOTTE,  NORTH CAROLINA
35.2030° N,  80.8134° W
including the transit of the overhead star MIRACH ( Beta Andromedae ) a = 1 h 9 m 43.9 s
Name Date sunrise
AM		 high noon
PM		 sunset
PM		 MIRACH
  ARIES MAR 20 6:30 12:30 6:30 - - -
  TAURUS, DST APR 19 6:49 1:22 7:55 - - -
  GEMINI, DST MAY 20 6.20 1:20 8:20 - - -
  CANCER, DST JUN 20 6:14 1:25 8:36 - - -
  LEO, DST JUL 23 6.24 1:24 8:24 - - -
  VIRGO, DST AUG 22 6:53 1:26 7:59 4:33 am
  LIBRA, DST SEP 22 7:16 1:16 7:16 2:31 am
  SCORPIO OCT 22 6:40 12:07 5:34 11:32 pm
  SAGITTARIUS NOV 21 7:09 12:09 5:09 9:34 pm
  CAPRICORN DEC 21 7:32 12:21 5:10 7:36 pm
  AQUARIUS JAN 19 7:34 12:34 5:34 5:41 pm
  PISCES FEB 18 7:10 12:37 6:04 - - -


< CURRENT MOON PHASE
1 Lunar Day = 1 day   50 minutes   28.4 seconds
1 Lunar Month = 29 days   12 hours   44 minutes   2.7 seconds
  Nodical Month = 27 days 5 hours 5 minutes 36 seconds
  Eclipse Year = 346.620073 days
  Great Lunar Cycle = 18.6134 years
  Julian lunation number = [ JD / 29.5305888531 ] + .7
Photo 1   Charlotte's Lunar Eclipse of 3/3/07   Photo 2


Celestial Coordinates of the Sun for
THE ZODIACAL YEAR
ecliptic longitude, right ascension, declination, ecliptic slope
Name Date l a d s
  ARIES MAR 20 0 0 0 23.439
  TAURUS APR 19 30 27.911 11.472 20.579
  GEMINI MAY 20 60 57.819 20.150 12.231
  CANCER JUN 20 90 90 23.439 0
  LEO JUL 23 120 122.181 20.150 -12.231
  VIRGO AUG 22 150 152.089 11.472 -20.579
  LIBRA SEP 22 180 180 0 -23.439
  SCORPIO OCT 22 210 207.911 -11.472 -20.579
  SAGITTARIUS NOV 21 240 237.819 -20.150 -12.231
  CAPRICORN DEC 21 270 270 -23.439 0
  AQUARIUS JAN 19 300 302.181 -20.150 12.231
  PISCES FEB 18 330 332.089 -11.472 20.579


GREGORIAN CALENDAR: a solar year that consist of 365 or 366 days
name # of days
  • A year contains 365 days
  • unless the year is divisable by 4, then a leap day is added
  • unless the year is divisable by 100, then a leap day is not added
  • unless the year is divisable by 400, then a leap day is added
          On the Gregorian calendar, the vernal equinox will drift 2 hours and 53.5 minutes earlier every 400 years. Some have proposed subtracting a leap day every 4,000 years. This is an inferior idea. Here is the new rule that corrects the calendar: If a year is divisable by 3,200, then a leap day is not added. The new average year becomes 1168775 days / 3200 = 365.2421875 days.
  JANUARY 31
  FEBRUARY 28 / 29
  MARCH 31
  APRIL 30
  MAY 31
  JUNE 30
  JULY 31
  AUGUST 31
  SEPTEMBER 30
  OCTOBER 31
  NOVEMBER 30 Lilian Date 0 = 2299159.5 JD
lunation = - 4207.432
  DECEMBER 31


          The runes are not entirely extinct but are still used as a BASE-19 numeric system. This is relevant to those who own runic calendar sticks that predict the phases of the moon. This "runic number" represents the year 2006. ie.,
          5 x 192 + 10 x 191 + 11 x 190 = 2006


INTERESTING DAYS
          The two days, February 8th and November 1st, are alike in several ways. They will both fall on the same day of the week. The declination of the sun will be the same, about -14.7°. The phase of the moon will also be the same because they are seperated by 9 lunar months. November 1st is Samhain, the first day of the Celtic year and the Norse liturgical calendar.
Date sunrise
AM		 high noon
PM		 sunset
PM
FEBRUARY 8 7:20 12:37 5:54
NOVEMBER 1 6:49 12:07 5:24


THE THORIAN CALENDAR
( THE 11-FOLD NORSE/GERMANIC LITURGICAL CALENDAR )
( also called the new Ásatrú calendar )

The year is composed of eleven periods named after some halls of Asgard, the realm of the gods. Thor ( planet Jupiter ) visits these halls in succession every 1 and 1/11 years. The opposition of "planet Thor" brings very good fortune.
Hall Date # of days Presiding God Jupiter ( Thor )
  ALFHEIM NOV 1 33 or 34 FREYR 2012
  YDALIR DEC 4 33 ULL 2013
  SESSRUMNIR JAN 6 33 FREYJA 2003
  VALASKJALF FEB 8 33 ODIN 2004
  FENSALIR MAR 13 34 FRIGG 2005
  BREIDABLIK APR 16 33 BALDER 2006
  GLITNIR MAY 19 33 FORSETI 2007
  BILSKIRNIR JUN 21 33 THOR 2008
  VIDI JUL 24 33 VIDAR 2009
  NOATUN AUG 26 34 NJORD 2010
  HIMINBJORG SEP 29 33 HEIMDALL 2011
LEAP YEARS ( Gregorian style )
Hall Date # of days This change is necessary to preserve a 266 day seperation between VALASKJALF 1 and ALFHEIM 1( see below ).
  ALFHEIM NOV 1 34
  YDALIR DEC 5 33
  SESSRUMNIR JAN 7 33
  VALASKJALF FEB 9 33
          Comment: The eleven-fold calendar has the important property that eight periods ( halls ) nearly equal nine lunar months ( 266 days ). This, incidentally, is the human gestation period. The February 8 - November 1 relationship is indicated ( see important days above ). This solar calendar exactly defines the same ancient religious events that the northman's lunar calendar does. There are basically three holy days to know.
  • Harvest feast ( and lunar new year ), first new moon on or after HIMINBJORG 20
  • Sacrifice, first full moon on or after SESSRUMNIR 20
  • Midsummer bonfire, BILSKIRNIR 1
           The purpose of the sacrifice could have been to fertilize the earth as to bring fruition to the harvest season. For information on the lunar calendar, see Secrets of Heathen Time-keeping, a popular article by Garrick Wells.

           On Eclipses: The eleven-fold calendar can help predict eclipses. An eclipse will usually recur in the same location every 54 and 1 / 11 years. This period is a triple Saros cycle or the exeligmos (Greek: "turn of the wheel"). According to folklore, during an eclipse it is said the wolves ( that pursue the sun and moon ) finally capture the two chariot-drivers. It was ritual for everyone to howl at the wolves until the drivers were regurgitated

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HEGIRA CALENDAR: a lunar year that consist of 254 or 255 days
name # of days
          Years are ennumerated. There is a cycle with a 30 lunar year modulus. Normal years contain 354 days. Leap years with 355 days are those with the following residues ( remainders after division by 30 ):

2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29

          According to one converter, the Hegira and Gregorian calendar will converge on the date:

m / d / y = 5 / 1 / 20874

          The calendar could be improved by inserting 29 leap days every 79 years.
Muharram 30
Safar 29
Rabī‘ al-Awwal 30
Rabī‘ al-Ākhir 29
Jumādā ’l-Ūlā 30
Jumādā ’l-Ākhira 29
Rajab 30
Sha‘bān 29
Ramadān 30
Shawwāl 29
Dhū ’l-Qa‘da 30
Dhū ’l-Hijja 29 / 30
Great Mosque of Mecca:   21.422° N,  39.826° E
Direction from Charlotte ( Qibla ):   36° N of E


PLANETARY DATA
Planet Synodic Period*
(Days)		 = fraction
(approx. Years)		 Orbital Period
(Siderial Years)		 Mean Orbital
Radius (AU)
  MERCURY 115.91 20 / 63 .240899 .38744
  VENUS 583.92 8 / 5 .615185 .72281
  EARTH - - 1 1
  MARS 779.93 15 / 7 1.88082 1.5233
  JUPITER 398.88 12 / 11 11.8613 5.2025
  SATURN 378.09 30 / 29 29.4568 9.5407
*   The synodic period is when Earth takes a lap on another planet or when another planet takes a lap on Earth. When it's expressed in a fraction, we can say, for example; Jupiter comes 11 times every 12 years.
      Mercury and Venus are only seen in the evening and the morning, at best during the maximum elongation. The times between evening m.e. to morning m.e. are about 43.5 days for Mercury and 141.5 days for Venus.


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