Über die Planeten ist im April wahrlich nicht viel zu sagen: Zu sehen gibt es fast nichts#Astronomie #Beobachtungstipp #Beobachtungstipps #Planet #Planeten #Merkur #Venus #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptun #Mond
Planetenpause
#uranus
A #mini-planet orbiting in the frigid #outer reaches of the #solarsystem has a #Saturn-like #ring of #dust and #debris that #defies the rules of #physics, a new study has #revealed.
The planet in question is called #Quaoar and it's the #seventh largest of the known #dwarf #planets of which #Pluto is the #king. #Discovered in #2002 and about 697 miles wide (1,121 kilometers), Quaoar is one of the so-called #trans-Neptunian objects, small planets orbiting #beyond the solar system's outermost planet #Neptune.
Residing in the #KuiperBelt, the doughnut-shaped ring of rocky and icy debris in the outer solar system, Quaoar is a proud owner of its own #moon, the 100-mile-wide (160 km) #Weywot. And a recent observation campaign revealed that it also has a ring of material in its orbit.
That by itself wouldn't be so special. The gas giant Saturn is known to possess a whole series of rings. #Jupiter, Neptune and #Uranus also have some. One other trans-Neptunian object — #Haumea — has been found to have a ring, and the space rock #Chariklo that orbits between #Saturn and #Uranus also has one. So what exactly sets Quaoar's ring apart?
Related: Dwarf planets: science & facts about the solar system’s smaller worlds
Quaoar's ring is at a very unusual #distance from its parent body. In fact, before astronomers discovered Quaoar's ring in observations from several telescopes conducted between 2018 and 2021, they had thought that it was impossible for a ring to exist at such a distance. With a radius of about 2,420 miles (3,885 km) from Quaoar's center, the ring is too far away from the dwarf planet that its gravity should no longer be able to keep the material dispersed. Instead, it should coalesce under its own gravity and form another moon, just like Weywot. By not having done that, the ring has breached what astronomers call the Roche limit, the first known ring around a #celestial body to have done so.
"What is so intriguing about this discovery around Quaoar is that the ring of material is much farther out than the Roche limit," Giovanni Bruno, an astronomer at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and one of the authors of the paper, said in a European #Space Agency (ESA) statement. "As a result of our observations, the classical notion that dense rings survive only inside the Roche limit of a planetary body must be thoroughly revised."
The ring was discovered during a series of occultations, essentially eclipses, when Quaoar passed between Earth and several more distant but much brighter stars. When an occultation occurs, the light of the background star temporarily dims. The effect is only visible to very sensitive telescopes and is frequently used to detect exoplanets orbiting stars in our Milky Way galaxy, which is why ESA's exoplanet hunter Cheops was among the telescopes watching these Quaoar occultations.
When astronomers analyzed the data, they realized that apart from the main dip in the background stars' brightness, they could detect two smaller drops. Since drops occurred before and after the main occultation, respectively, the researchers thought that Quaoar must be surrounded with a ring.
Several Earth-based telescopes also observed the occultations with similar results, but Cheops' data were particularly valuable as they proved that the odd dimmings were not caused by the effects of Earth's atmosphere.
https://www.space.com/mysterious-ring-around-dwarf-planet-puzzles-astronomers
Merkur erreicht seine beste Abendsichtbarkeit des Jahres, und auch Jupiter und Uranus lassen sich blicken. Die anderen Planeten sind im März unbeobachtbar.#Planet #Planeten #Planetenlauf #Astronomie #Merkur #Venus #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptun
Merkur trumpft auf
Merkur, Saturn und Neptun befinden sich in oder nahe ihrer Konjunktion. Venus und Mars sind nahezu unbeobachtbar. Allein Jupiter und Uranus halten die Stellung am Abendhimmel.#Planet #Planeten #Planetenlauf #Astronomie #Merkur #Venus #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptun
Letzte Chance für die Venus
https://olivebites.blogspot.com/2024/01/weekly-astrology-forecast-january-29th.html
WEEKLY #ASTROLOGY FORECAST | JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4TH, 2024 - THE FUTURE IS BEING SET UP BY THE ACTIONS WE TAKE NOW, SMOOTH COMMUNICATIONS WITH PARTNERS, CONTRACTS GET SIGNED AND COMMITMENTS MADE, PLUS OPPORTUNITIES TO DRIFT AND DREAM
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2024
Cat Ivins
..."On MONDAY - now #Mars - the way we take action and go after what we want - reaches his exact trine (brakes off) with lightning fast, lightning-in-a-bottle #Uranus. #Mercury is still in trine, too.
TAKE ACTION. Something is falling into place. This is an earth trine - so grounded, practical.
A path of least resistance has just opened up.
Keep in mind the timeframes we talked about in the opening of this post.
Note - both Mercury and Mars have trined and are trining a strong Uranus who has just changed direction. All major planets are direct, and trines are saying THE BRAKES ARE OFF. The changes that were postponed are HERE, just keep in mind that although things can move fast with Pluto in Aquarius and some things will, Uranus doesn't actually move even one degree until March.
The things we are setting into motion now - the changes that were postponed - are BIG.
This is Cappy, so effort and ambition will pay off. We get, arguably, the BEST aspect - the trine - from two inner planets - us - to a powerful outer planet - everything that isn't us. This outer planet is about fast change/freedom/genius - wants change AT ANY COST and it pays not to mistake Uranus for Aquarius (why sober and time-honoring Saturn's co-rulership of Aquarius is necessary or we would be off the rails in about six seconds).
Collectively with Uranus in Taurus this is about smooth changes with our income, resources and self-esteem. New ideas about making money, getting more value from our existing resources and having greater SECURITY.
And, of course this is all happening with Mercury/Mars in square to the Nodes of Fate indicating we are at a crossroads/turning point in a cycle that HAS SOME HISTORY AND BAGGAGE CONNECTED TO IT.
Mercury trines Juno - good for conversations with partners, marital communication or re-negotiating contracts. Dotted lines will be signed on. Just keep in mind Juno is retrograde, so THERE WILL BE SOME CHANGES LATER. Stay flexible. Juno is determined to fix what CAN be fixed within our relationships. Virgo is about the details/is exacting, so that is what we are looking at and talking about.
Little things are big things. "...
https://www.astrologybylauren.com/new-blog/2024/1/25/uranus-stations-direct-an-awakening
#Uranus Stations Direct - An Awakening
#Astrology By Lauren
..."As Uranus stations on January 27th, it does so with a strong trine to Mercury and Mars in Capricorn. This is what is bringing this all home. This is what is making this personal for a lot of people. And so we all might want to ask ourselves: What is being woken up again? What is being illuminated? And are there any changes that may even feel like something of a turning point in your life?
Pluto entering the Uranus sign of Aquarius will gradually allow you to break any patterns in your life that have been preventing you from living your life more freely and authentically. But as we make the transition, there will still be a part of you that will want to stay with what you are familiar with. While another part of you is being inexorably drawn in a direction that will allow you to more fully to express that authentic self.
The theme for this Lunar month which began with the New Moon in Capricorn on January 11th, is one of being at a crossroads between the Old and the New. This week Mercury and Mars are at the bending of the Nodes, looking back from where we’ve come, while looking with greater conviction to the possibilities of the future. We are asked to be brave and courageous in our choices this week. For what we learn at the Uranus station can ultimately lead to remarkable changes in our lives that can last for years.
Our road map for the year ahead is still being written. And what we learn this week can make a difference as to exactly what that road map will look like. This may require us to go off road, to consider new possibilities. To be open to change. And so many may ask this week:
What new insights have I been having?
How have these insights influenced my goals, and/or Vision for the Future?
What am I ultimately wanting to achieve? and Why?
What steps am I able to take that will allow me to live a freer, truer and more authentic life and lifestyle? "...
https://olivebites.blogspot.com/2024/01/weekly-astrology-forecast-january-22nd.html\\
#URANUS THE AWAKENER MOVES FORWARD CATALYZING THE CHANGES THAT WERE POSTPONED, ALL PLANETS DIRECT UNTIL APRIL #astrology
Cat Ivins
On SATURDAY/SUNDAY - the weekend looks BIG.
And since it's the weekend, yes, much will play out as it applies in the preceding days, too.
Uranus stations direct - here is the CHANGE/chaos - the breakthrough, breakdown, break-up - that was postponed. Lightning strikes and lightbulb moments are possible.
And, of course, keep in mind, Uranus is strong all week, so pretty much anything can happen at any time, BUT before this point it will surely be something we could have seen coming. After his station I would say all bets are off.
Uranus (and Aquarius) in our natal chart is a space we all carry our own little vial of Promethean fire. Vision. Destiny. It's a space where change is demanded of us. A space where we can't really pretend we are 'normal'. It will speak of a past life/ancestral TRAUMA - you will also see something about this repeated in some way in your childhood. Maybe in that past life we had the 'change/chaos/loss' and died, so in this life we get the 'change' and learn we can keep going. There is a price to be paid for this little vial of 'fire' we carry. We may not be chained to a rock like Prometheus having our liver pecked out every night by an eagle (although Uranian/Aquarius people should take extra care with their livers), but freedom isn't free.
I don't think it's a coincidence that we have these squares to Chiron (who replaced Prometheus on that rock) at the same time.
With Pluto in Aquarius now and answering to Uranus (and Saturn), everything Uranus does will have a greater significance. In Taurus, collectively Uranian changes speak of earth changes, financial shake-ups, changes with our self-esteem, values and resource issues.
(Uranus will station retrograde on September 1. 2024, that's the day Pluto moves back into Cappy for his final few weeks - I mean you can't make this stuff up!)
Mercury is uber active now - communication, information, conversations. His/her trine to Uranus speaks of solutions, forward leaning words and conversations. New ideas. The nodal square tells us that change is needed/might come with our back against the wall. Squares bring tension and frustration, but truly without them not much would change! That North Node in Aries speaks of the need to be brave, first, more self-sufficient, more assertive - maybe with that conjunction with Mars - even get pissed off. Obviously we could take this too far, but bending over backward for someone else isn't going to work.
Mercury is the hub of EVERYTHING here. Words will matter. Think before you speak. "...
Der flinke Merkur zeigt sich vor Sonnenaufgang und gesellt sich zur Venus. Der Abendhimmel gehört derweil eindeutig dem Riesen Jupiter, der sich bestens beobachten lässt.#Planet #Planeten #Merkur #Venus #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptun #Mond #Beobachtungstipp #Beobachtungstipps #Planetenlauf #Astronomie
Venus am Morgen, Jupiter am Abend
New Year 2024 and #Astrology Forecast December 31- January 6
By Leo Knighton Tallarico
..."#Mercury is right in step with that reality as it goes from Retrograde to Direct at 10:08 PM Eastern on January 1.
And before that on December 30 #Jupiter goes from Retrograde to Direct.
After those two planets shift to Direct this week, there will be only 1 planet still Retrograde: #Uranus. And it will go back Direct on January 27, 2024. Then all planets are Direct and all systems are Go.
For now, however, it is important that Jupiter, and especially Mercury move forward this week.
Jupiter Direct in Taurus at 5+ degrees shows us that there is a strong stimulant for manifesting, making real, and holding onto what is solid and secure.
Dreaming wants to find a place of solidity in order to make Reality what wa only an inspiring idea previously.
So use this time to begin the process of manifesting your heart’s desires into reality.
...
This week after Jupiter and Mercury go Direct, Mars leaves fiery inspired Sagittarius and goes into grounded, manifesting, accomplishment oriented Capricorn on Wednesday January 3."...
The chilly outer planet #Uranus, located roughly 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) from the Sun, isn't thought of as a "ringed planet", but that's because its rings are far too faint to be seen by most telescopes. In fact, it took until the 1986 flight of the Voyager 2 spacecraft out beyond the edges of our #solar-system for astronomers to confirm the existence of Uranus' #13 #rings.
An illustration shows the rings from the surface of the ice-rock centaur #Chiron.
A #bizarre #object that sometimes gets as close to the #Sun as #Saturn, and other times retreats as far out as #Uranus, has been discovered to have a transforming disk of dust around it that changes shape and can even mimic rings.
#Minor #planet 2060 Chiron is what's known as a #Centaur, which are captured cometary objects that travel around the sun on looping orbits between #Jupiter and #Neptune. Chiron is just 218 kilometers (135 miles) across and occasionally has outbursts like a comet. To date, however, no spacecraft has ever visited a Centaur.
In 2011, Chiron passed in front of a faint #star from our point of view here on #Earth. Such events are referred to as "stellar occultations," and based on how an object such as Chiron blocks a star's light, the occulting object's shape and size can be determined through deduction. During the 2011 occultation, it was noticed that the star's light dimmed slightly — twice before Chiron itself occulted the star, and two further times after Chiron had moved past the star. This observation was interpreted as Chiron having a double-ring system of dust.
Then, Chiron occulted another star on Nov. 28, 2018, in an event taken advantage of by Amanda Sickafoose, who is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. Because Chiron's shadow cast by the star is so small, it crossed only a narrow region of the Earth, clipping southern Africa. Sickafoose therefore led a team who used the 1.9-meter (6.2 feet) telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa, to observe the occultation.
Their results, published exactly five years later, tell a slightly different story to 2011.
"We detected dips in the starlight as it was blocked by Chiron's nucleus as well as by material located between 300 to 400 kilometers on either side," Sickafoose said in a statement.
Specifically, as Chiron moved over the star, Sickafoose's team observed dips in starlight produced by dusty material at radii of 352, 344 and 316 kilometers (approximately 219, 214 and 196 miles) from the center of Chiron. In other words, that was between about 100 to 130 kilometers (60 to 80 miles) above the Centaur's surface. After Chiron had moved away from the star, the scientists then witnessed two further dips at 357 and 364 kilometers (221 and 226 miles) from Chiron's center.
If Chiron had only two stable rings, one would expect just two pairs of symmetrical dips in light on either side of Chiron. The anomalous third dip on one side of the Centaur is evidence that the situation is not so clear-cut. Furthermore, the dips caused by the mystery material seemingly occurred tens of kilometers away from the locations of the rings as measured in 2011 (although they do fall within the margin of error of the 2011 observations). The magnitude of the dips in starlight caused by the material, however, is also different.
"The locations and amounts of material that were detected around Chiron are different enough from previous observations to suggest that there is not a stable ring system but rather surrounding material that is currently evolving," said Sickafoose.
Another stellar occultation by Chiron on Dec. 15, 2022, was observed at the Kottamia Astronomical Observatory in Egypt by a team led by Jose Luis Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain. They found the material around Chiron had changed again, detecting three symmetrical structures on either side of Chiron. Two of the features are narrow and one is broad, and that together they seem to form a wide disk 580 kilometers (360 miles) across.
The origin and composition of this material around Chiron remains unknown, although the likelihood is that it comes from Chiron itself, perhaps blasted into space by cometary outbursts such as those witnessed in the summer of 2021 when Chiron brightened by 0.6 magnitudes. For context, a magnitude 0 object is 100 times brighter than a magnitude 5 object in this brightness system. Another Centaur, the 250-kilometer (160 miles) wide 10199 Chariklo, was also previously shown to have rings during a stellar occultation in 2013, and confirmed during another stellar occultation witnessed by the James Webb Space Telescope on Oct. 18, 2022. The JWST even detected water-ice on Chariklo. However, the findings at Chiron call into question the nature of the structures around Chariklo, too.
Occultations of faint stars by Chiron happen fairly regularly, and future observations now have a challenge on their hands to explain what is happening around the distant, apparently morphing, Centaur.
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I photographed Uranus again last night [OC]
An intense time ahead as #mars comes to conjunct fiery chaotic #ketu, and square #pluto.
from 4th oct-17th nov mars will give full vedic aspect to pluto, #jupiter, and #uranus..
....a challenging period for those with planets or ascendant in sidereal libra, capricorn or aries..generally affecting, relationships, corporate/official/business matters, and military activity
...from 25th oct, uranus will be back in the red star zone, buckle up
#astrology from #ianwood
#Vedic #Astrology assigns deities to #planets, and according to the #ancient #palm #leaf called Vasistha Nadi, the names of the grahas or planets (yet to be discovered) would be #Prajapati ( #Uranus), #Varuna ( #Neptune), and #Yama ( #Pluto). As Neptune is moving from #Aquarius to Pisces, we focus on the effects of Neptune, with Varuna as Presiding Deity.
Varuna Peyarchi: Neptune to Pisces
On 18-19 February 2023, Neptune transited from Aquarius to Pisces and is currently sandhi 0.00° Pisces (deprived of energy) where it will remain for a little more than three weeks. Sandi means “deprived of energy” so the effect of Neptune moving to Pisces will not be pronounced for some time.
As referenced earlier, we look to outer planets when they change signs. Neptune has capacity for non-attachment, infinite love and beauty, charity, altruism, bliss and rapture, and awareness of divinity, transcendence of duality.
Neptune likes to transcend, to merge, to flow, to melt, to yield. Neptune can accept changes, allow a changing environment, and can love selflessly and impersonally. This is an important capacity of Neptune, for most young people and youth take love as a matter of possession and territory – possession of someone’s mind, and territory of their body. Nothing could be further from love. Dreams of love and idealism, infatuation and attachment all have to have both feet on the ground and squarely detached with your own boundaries intact around YOU.
Neptune is traditionally seen as the planet that imagines, envisions, dreams and inspires. While Neptune offers all that, and more: to fantasize, to heighten, one has to keep their feet on the ground or end up helpless, spaced out, dissolving into chaos, and prey to drugs and the unconscious mind. One can self-destruct, abdicate all responsibility and end up sabotaging themselves. While Neptune – always near the Collective Unconscious – offers access to the psychic realms, and psi experiences – these can all be achieved with self discipline, self-control and self-respect. Psychedelic drugs and the like are not necessary to achieve this. You can reach the same high meditating as those people who tell they get a high using bongs.
What will Neptune’s transit in Pisces bring? One would hope for a gentler, kinder, more spiritually inspired world. However, this is not historically what we have seen before. Neptune represents secret plots, rebellions, and sedition, and Neptune in Pisces will be a time of tremendous idealism associated with an urge to dissolve tired old paradigms and world views in favour of a more charitable universal vision. We live in an era where significant changes have taken place (our great-grandparents would not recognise our modern, electronic world – except, perhaps, for the radio and print news. So much has changed with living, co-habitation, housing, working, travel, child-care centres and the gig economy.
Pisces is a water sign, a moksha sign, and harbours great spiritual awareness, creative achievement, and compassionate action. But when disconnected from the All, from peers, society and culture, in its lower expression, Pisces has a tendency for escapism, deception, and delusion. This is the signification of the fish going in two directions, we can pull towards separation and duality, we can pull towards the experience of everything is Atma, and the lifting of the veil of illusion.
#Neptune in #Pisces provides the impetus towards transcendence of duality, unity consciousness, surrender and non-attachment. So Neptune in Pisces seeks to transcend, to merge, to surrender, to sacrifice, to let go and let God. On the other hand, Neptune seeks to dream, to inspire, to glamorise, to idealise, to imagine, to envision, to fantasise, to intuit, to enchant, to beguile. In summary, the positive benefits of Neptune are accessed when we are grounded and following dharma.
About #Lord #Varuna
Lord Varuna
Lord Varuna is revered in Hinduism as the God of water and his sway extends to the underwater world. The Hindu Goddess Varuni is his consort and a Makara serves as his mount. According to the Puranas, he is the son of sage Kashyapa and one of the twelve Gods considered as Adityas, owing to their origin from the Mother of Gods, Aditi. Varuna possesses the lordship of the waters and was entrusted with the task of overseeing the clouds and rains. He is thus known as the king of waters and controls the Oceans, Seas, Rivers, and all other water bodies. During the Mahabharata period, the great Pandava, Arjuna was hailed as the son of Lord Varuna. It is also widely believed that praying to him protects us from thunder and lighting.
Varuna #Gayatri
Aum Jalabimbaye Vidmahe
Nila Purushaye Dhimahi
Tanno Varunah Prachodayat
Om, Let us meditate on the reflection of water
O person of ocean blue, give me higher intellect
And let the God of water illuminate my mind
#Europe #astrocartography #map for the #supermoon
the imminent supermoon, europe map
...uranus I.C. for paris.
...I.C. for a country is homeland, #uranus is #freedom..free the homeland from E.U. tyranny might be the call
.. #pluto rising through the middle, transformation, revolution
,,, #saturn rising moscow, E. ukraine, could it get more serious?
..barcelona on that uranus line
from #ianwood