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Friday, June 23,2006
The Clifton Record
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Moon’s March
Through The Planets
Over the next two weeks we’ll
have a great opportunity to
watch the Moon march by four
?.f the five naked-eye planets,
including the elusive Mercury.
The march begins in the morn-
ing and ends in the evening.
The morning of June 22, an
hour before sunrise, the cres-
cent Moon was above Venus, the
brilliant “mowing star,” with
the lovely Pleiades star cluster
to Venus’s left low above the
eastern horizon. The next morn-
ing finds an even thinner cres-
cent Moon nearer the horizon,
to the left of Venus and below
the Pleiades.
The June 25 new Moon seems
to disappear while passing be-
tween the Earth and Sun, and
preparing to move into the
evening sky.
The march resumes at dusk
June 26 when an ever-so-thin
crescent Moon is to the right of
Mercury just above the western
horizon. Binoculars might be
needed.
- The highlight of the show oc-
clirs the next evening when a
slightly larger crescent Moon is
above Mercury and to the right
61 Saturn and the Beehive star
cluster with Mars to Saturn’s
upper left. Saturn is the bright-
est of the three planets.
Low Interest Drought
Disaster Loans
Available For Farmers
In McLennan, Bosque, Johnson, Hill, Hood, Somervell,
and Limestone Counties, Says Congressman Edwards
But the show isn’t quite over
as the next evening, June 28, the
Moon is just above Mars.
Viewing the Moon over sev-
eral nights affords the opportu-
nity to note some subtle changes
that occur regularly in the night
sky.
After new Moon, the Moon
grows slightly more illuminated
each evening. On June 26 just
the tiniest part is lighted, but
each night thereafter the cres-
cent grows fuller, thus it’s called
a waxing (increasing) crescent
Moon.
The Moon also rises later each
night, as much as 70 minutes
some times of the year, and
other times as little as 30 min-
utes. On average it comes up
about 50 minutes later each
night.
Finally, since the Moon orbits
Earth every 27.3 days moving in
an easterly direction, it appears
13 degrees east of where it was
the same time the night before,
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Represen-
tative Chet Edwards announced
today that the United States De-
partment of Agriculture (USDA)
will make available low interest
loans to farmers in District 17 coun-
ties harmed by severe drought con-
ditions since January 1st of this year.
McLennan, Bosque, and Johnson
counties were designated primary
disaster areas and Hill, Hood,
Somervell, and Limestone counties
as contiguous disaster areas in con-
gressional district 17. Other Texas
counties deemed drought disaster
areas by the USDA are Bell,
Coryell, Erath, Parker, Tarrant,
Hamilton, Milam, and Falls coun-
ties.
Edwards, as a member of the
House Energy and Water Appro-
priations Subcommittee, com-
mended the USDA and Farm
Service Agencies (FSA) statewide
for their efforts to aid local commu-
relative to the background stars
— a distance called a
moonstride. By a handy coinci-
dence, then, making a “hook ’em
horns” sign at arm’s length, the
distance between one’s index
and little fingers is a
moonstride. Holding your left
hand at arm’s length and align-
ing your index finger with the
Moon, note which stars (and
planets if any) your little finger
is pointing to — that’s where the
Moon will be the next night
(While this is easy for us Long-
horns, I realize it’s hard for
Aggies and Bears, but it will be
dark and no one will see).
Sky Calendar
• Thursday (evening), June 29
— The Moon is to the right of
Leo’s Regulus.
• Saturday (morning), July 1
— Venus passes to the upper left
of Taurus’ Hyades star cluster
and brightest star, Aldebaran.
• Sunday (1 a.m. local time),
July 2 — Midpoint of year 2006.
• Monday, July 3 — The Moon
at 1st quarter. Also, Earth
reaches aphelion, the point in its
elliptical orbit where it is far-
thest from the Sun at 94.3 mil-
lion miles — three million miles
farther away than at January’s
perihelion.
• Tuesday (evening), July 4 —
The Moon is to the lower left of
Virgo’s Spica.
• Wednesday (evening), July 5
— The Moon is below Jupiter.
• Friday (evening), July 7 —
The Moon is to the right of Scor-
pius’ Antares.
Astro Milestones
Thursday, July 20, is the 37th
anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11
Moon landing when U.S. astro-
nauts Neal Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin became the first humans
to walk on the moon.
Stargazer appears every other
week. Paul Derrick is an ama-
teur astronomer who lives in
Waco — contact him at 918 N.
30th, Waco, TX 76707, by phone at
(254) 753-6920, or by e-mail
<paulderrickwaco@aol.com>.
Visit the Stargazer website
< stargazerpaul.com >.
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“When a community is hit hard
by drought, the federal government
should play a role in lending a help-
ing hand to those farmers who need
it," said Edwards.
The disaster designation makes
farm operators in both primary and
contiguous counties eligible to be
considered for low-interest emer-
gency loans from the Farm Service
Agency (FSA), which will consider
each application based on extent of
loss and other factors.
Local FSA offices can provide
farmers with further information.
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006, newspaper, June 23, 2006; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth790015/m1/17/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.