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Astrological Aspectarian 2009 Including Centaurs & TNOs

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The 2009 aspectarian is now posted here. It includes all named Centaurs, TNOs and Dwarf Planets as well as the Classical Planets, BML and some asteroids. Moon phases, eclipses, occultations, sign changes, stations and Mercury shadow dates are also shown.

Makemake Aspectarian

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I’ve added Makemake’s aspects to the 2008 Centaur/TNO aspectarian here, which now also shows all eclipses, occultations, Moon phases and Mercury shadow dates. Same for the Today page.

Below are Makemake’s major aspects to the end of this year:

Monday 04 August 2008

09:41:33 UT – Makemake (23 vi 18′55″) sextile Ceres (23 cn 18′55″)

Friday 08 August 2008

23:17:43 UT – Makemake (23 vi 24′10″) conjunct Mars (23 vi 24′10″)

Sunday 24 August 2008

18:06:05 UT – Makemake (23 vi 44′5″) conjunct Mercury (23 vi 44′5″)

Monday 25 August 2008

12:28:08 UT – Makemake (23 vi 45′7″) conjunct Venus (23 vi 45′7″)

Friday 12 September 2008

12:06:55 UT – Makemake (24 vi 10′9″) conjunct Eros (24 vi 10′9″)

Tuesday 16 September 2008

18:58:24 UT – Makemake (24 vi 16′15″) conjunct Sun (24 vi 16′15″)

Wednesday 17 September 2008

17:03:00 UT – Makemake (24 vi 17′33″) sextile Psyche (24 sc 17′33″)

Monday 06 October 2008

03:18:06 UT – Makemake (24 vi 43′27″) conjunct Okyrhoe (24 vi 43′27″)

Tuesday 07 October 2008

21:54:23 UT – Makemake (24 vi 45′52″) trine Thereus (24 ta 45′52″ Rx)

Tuesday 14 October 2008

13:51:35 UT – Makemake (24 vi 54′42″) sextile Venus (24 sc 54′42″)

Thursday 16 October 2008

04:47:25 UT – Makemake (24 vi 56′47″) square Juno (24 sa 56′47″)

Saturday 08 November 2008

19:14:22 UT – Makemake (25 vi 23′38″) square Venus (25 sa 23′38″)

Sunday 09 November 2008

21:41:07 UT – Makemake (25 vi 24′41″) sextile Mars (25 sc 24′41″)

Monday 17 November 2008

12:16:31 UT – Makemake (25 vi 31′21″) sextile Sun (25 sc 31′21″)

Thursday 20 November 2008

12:00:47 UT – Makemake (25 vi 33′41″) sextile Mercury (25 sc 33′41″)

Tuesday 25 November 2008

06:04:59 UT – Makemake (25 vi 37′1″) square Mean BML (25 sa 37′1″)

Friday 28 November 2008

14:45:51 UT – Makemake (25 vi 39′6″) sextile Eros (25 sc 39′6″)
16:32:36 UT – Makemake (25 vi 39′9″) sextile Amycus (25 sc 39′9″)

Thursday 04 December 2008

07:20:17 UT – Makemake (25 vi 42′5″) trine Venus (25 cp 42′5″)

Tuesday 09 December 2008

16:51:26 UT – Makemake (25 vi 44′15″) square Mercury (25 sa 44′15″)

Tuesday 16 December 2008

07:18:21 UT – Makemake (25 vi 46′2″) square Psyche (25 sa 46′2″)

Wednesday 17 December 2008

08:21:20 UT – Makemake (25 vi 46′13″) square Sun (25 sa 46′13″)

Thursday 18 December 2008

00:36:14 UT – Makemake (25 vi 46′20″) trine Jupiter (25 cp 46′20″)

Sunday 21 December 2008

15:54:29 UT – Makemake (25 vi 46′44″) square Mars (25 sa 46′44″)

Wednesday 24 December 2008

17:29:42 UT – Makemake stations retrograde (25 vi 46′50″)

Monday 29 December 2008

06:26:52 UT – Makemake (25 vi 46′36″ Rx) trine Mercury (25 cp 46′36″)

Newly Named Asteroids & Makemake Ephemeris

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The names below were added to the Minor Planet Center list overnight, including Makemake (2005 FY9), the newly named TNO / Dwarf Planet / Plutoid, currently at 23+ Virgo.

Makemake is now shown on all the ephemeris and chart pages on this site; it’s listed under TNOs at the moment, although I should probably change that to Dwarf Planet.

You can get the positions of the other new asteroids below (or any other named object) by using the “additional objects” option on those pages (enter the minor planet numbers separated by commas).

(21501) Acevedo
(21497) Alicehine
(20657) Alvarez-Candal
(21582) Arunvenkataraman
(21821) Billryan
(20366) Bonev
(21459) Chrisrussell
(21502) Cruz
(21782) Davemcdonald
(20897) Deborahdomingue
(21822) Degiorgi
(21530) Despiau
(21887) Dipippo
(21965) Dones
(21888) Durech
(156879) Elois
(20367) Erikagibb
(21581) Ernestoruiz
(21495) Feaga
(21457) Fevig
(20608) Fredmerlin
(12610) Hafez
(20467) Hibbitts
(20360) Holsapple
(20741) Jeanmichelreess
(21619) Johnshopkins
(20730) Jorgecarvano
(21964) Kevinhousen
(21945) Kleshchonok
(20363) Komitov
(21776) Kryszczynska
(159164) La Canada
(21496) Lijianyang
(136472) Makemake
(20731) Mothediniz
(21577) Negron
(21774) O’Brien
(21499) Perillat
(21580) Portalatin
(20361) Romanishin
(21962) Scottsandford
(20740) Semery
(21458) Susank
(20896) Tiphene
(20362) Trilling
(21775) Tsiganis
(21500) Vasquez
(20607) Vernazza
(20465) Vervack
(20606) Widemann

Moon Phases

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

You can now list the phases of the Moon for any given year from the Moons page. You just need to click the checkbox. Thanks.

Random

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Some synchronicity toys:

Random Graphics Slideshow

I wrote a PHP script to generate these pics; it draws random abstracts and then picks a random title from the dictionary. The ones that turn out nice are saved, and then displayed in random order by the slideshow. If you click on the title it takes you to a dictionary definition of the word. It may be suitable for use as an oracle deck, but note it does contain negative as well as positive words (nothing horrendous). There are about 600 cards.

Random Asteroid

Selects a random named minor planet from the 14,574 on the list (at the last count). Links you to the JPL database for details of the object, and tells you where it currently is. There are at least 130,000 minor planets so far discovered, but only a small proportion have names.

Random Chart

Generates random chart data, anywhere in the world between 1500 and 2099, and links you to the chart. It does quite often land you in the middle of the sea, and occasionally appears to fall off the edge of the world altogether, but I’ll get around to improving it some time.

P.S. There are also random Tarot spreads here.