cometsmeteoroids: Must-See Skywatching Events for June 2012 Sky map for the June 4, 2012, partial lunar eclipse. CREDIT: Geoff Gaherty In June 2012, the full moon dips through Earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse, then Venus crosses the face of the sun in a rare transit - the last for more than 100 years. Take a look at June’s most promising skywatching events below and happy stargazing! The Full Moon of June is usually called the Flower Moon. In Algonquian it is called Strawberry Moon. Other names are Honey Moon, Rose Moon, Hot Moon, and Planting Moon. In Hindi it is known as Wat Poornima. Its Sinhala (Buddhist) name is Poson. The Full Moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise, the only night in the month when the Moon is in the sky all night long. The rest of the month, the Moon spends at least some time in the daytime sky.

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Must-See Skywatching Events for June 2012

Sky map for the June 4, 2012, partial lunar eclipse.
CREDIT: Geoff Gaherty

In June 2012, the full moon dips through Earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse, then Venus crosses the face of the sun in a rare transit - the last for more than 100 years. Take a look at June’s most promising skywatching events below and happy stargazing!

The Full Moon of June is usually called the Flower Moon. In Algonquian it is called Strawberry Moon. Other names are Honey Moon, Rose Moon, Hot Moon, and Planting Moon. In Hindi it is known as Wat Poornima. Its Sinhala (Buddhist) name is Poson. The Full Moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise, the only night in the month when the Moon is in the sky all night long. The rest of the month, the Moon spends at least some time in the daytime sky.

31st May 2012 | 1 note
"Beauty and purity go hand in hand, and are tied up in a false sense of modesty. This type of attractiveness comes from being white, virginal, conventionally attractive and actively or deliberately ignorant of meeting that standard of attractiveness. It comes from needing to be seen as beautiful even “without any makeup on” but in “skin-tight jeans” if you’re Katy Perry, from Bruno Mars ‘knowing’ that “when I compliment her, she won’t believe me,” and in reminding a boy that he should be dating a girl who isn’t a shallow hussy, if you’re Taylor Swift.
All of this encourages girls to constantly strive to meet an arbitrary standard of attractiveness that fuels multiple industries (dieting and cosmetics, primarily) while reminding them that their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white. It creates a maelstrom of unhealthy attitudes about girls’ bodies and sexuality. Girls must be all things: attractive and unknowing, winking about sex and flaunting their sexuality but never expressing desire or – worse – actually having sex, and presenting their bodies as sexually available while deriding those girls whose sex lives are more active than their own. They must do all this while being straight, slender and white and preferably blonde or they’re not really even in the game to begin with."
– Teen Pop and the Culture of Purity (via sparkamovement)

(via fuckyeahsexeducation)

30th May 2012 | 799 notes
cometsmeteoroids: Partial Lunar Eclipse Next Week Kicks Off June’s Sky Sights This photo of the partial lunar eclipse of June 26, 2010 was taken by skywatcher Scott Kardel from near the Palomar Observatory in California as the moon appeared low on the Earth’s horizon before sunrise. CREDIT: Scott Kardel The first lunar eclipse of the year will occur next week when the full moon passes behind Earth, casting a shadow over a large expanse of the lunar surface. On June 4, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible to skywatchers in North America, South America, Australia, eastern regions of Asia and across the Pacific Ocean, weather permitting. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon orbits behind Earth with respect to the sun, and the planet’s shadow blocks light from the sun that would otherwise hit the moon. Since only a fraction of the moon will covered in shadow next week, astronomers call this type of eclipse a partial lunar eclipse.

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Partial Lunar Eclipse Next Week Kicks Off June’s Sky Sights

This photo of the partial lunar eclipse of June 26, 2010 was taken by skywatcher Scott Kardel from near the Palomar Observatory in California as the moon appeared low on the Earth’s horizon before sunrise.
CREDIT: Scott Kardel

The first lunar eclipse of the year will occur next week when the full moon passes behind Earth, casting a shadow over a large expanse of the lunar surface.

On June 4, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible to skywatchers in North America, South America, Australia, eastern regions of Asia and across the Pacific Ocean, weather permitting.

Lunar eclipses occur when the moon orbits behind Earth with respect to the sun, and the planet’s shadow blocks light from the sun that would otherwise hit the moon. Since only a fraction of the moon will covered in shadow next week, astronomers call this type of eclipse a partial lunar eclipse.

30th May 2012 | 4 notes

sigh my car’s getting inspected and it’s taking forever and I have work at one (wooooo working again though!) but one is creeping up closer and I hope it’s done in time!!! 

29th May 2012 | 1 note

lol I feel kind of creepy but I just found someone who I think I was just talking to jon about how much I missed following her and tricia indirectly led me to her so I hope that it’s not a problem that I followed her now 

(ahh!) 

26th May 2012

today is a hot sweaty day for hanging laundry on the clothesline and tearing all the weeds out of the garden and playing in the dirt. 

=]=]=] 

I fucking love summer ugh god 

25th May 2012 | 1 note