richardmurray

August dates

• August 1st : sun between mercury and earth ; Colorado 28th state in the USA; Traditional midsummer day, between the June solstice and the september equinox, what are your dreams this midsummer? 
• August 2nd : Moon , south to north of the path of the sun in the sky < Ecliptic> ; Moon farthest from earth < apogee> ; Saturn 180 degrees from the Sun in the sky <look to the horizon with the sun to your back> 
• August 5th: Moon highest above the equator <rise high>; 1st USA federal income tax 1861 <imagine that> 
• August 6th: Alexander Fleming <Penicillin> born 1881; Transfiguration of Jesus for christians
• August 8th: Mercury Moon conjunction; New Moon; First Muharran at Sundown <lunar calendar> for muslims, no warfare is allowed
• August 9th: Mars Moon conjunction
• August 10th: Smithsonian institute established 1846; Missouri 24th state 1821
• August 11th: Venus Moon conjunction; St Clare of Assisi saint day for christians
• August 12th: moon on equator
• August 13th: H.G. Wells died 1946 <The Time machine/Invisible Man/Island of Doctor Moreau/War of the Worlds> 
• August 15th: Walter Scott born 1771 < Ivanhoe!> ; Yom kippur begins at sundown for jews <lunar calendar> First quarter
• August 16th: Moon north to south of path of the sun in the sky <ecliptic>;Klondike gold rush started 1896
• August 17th: Moon closest to earth <perigee> ; Cats Night begin. Eight nights before a witch can turn into a cat, but on the ninth night she can not change back. She has nine lives Enjoy my poetry for Cats Night-> .https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-943
• August 18th: Moon lowest from Equator <rides low>
• August 19th: Mercury Mars conjunction; Pluto moon conjunction; Uranus is still in the sky; Jupiter is 180 degrees in the sky <Look to the horizon with the sun to your back>
• August 20th: Saturn Moon conjunction; Strowger firm applied for 1st rotary telephone patent 1986
• August 22nd: Ray Bradbury born 1920, I quote him "Libraries raised me... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years" Submit a story using three random things, solid/liquid/gas/electromagnetic in the room where you sleep, utilizing a book in some fashion in the story. 
• August 22nd: Full Sturgeon moon, go fishin!
• August 23rd: Neptune Moon conjunction
• August 25th: Moon on equator
• August 28th: Uranus Moon conjunction; John Herbert Chapman born 1921, lead designer for the first satellite of canada, studying the ionosphere, named the Alouette <little duck> 1962; St Augustine of Hippo, saint day, died on august 28th in legend, revered by a pan-christian denomination
• August 29th: Moon farthest from earth <apogee> 
• August 30th: Moon south to north of the path of the sun in the sky < ecliptic>  ; Vicki Keith 1st person to swim across all the Great Lakes 1988