Saturday night

[magid]

This Saturday night is a lunar occultation of the Pleiades, which should be visible across North America (barring weather, of course).

Also in much of the U.S. that night, turn the clocks forward.
(This announcement brought to you by the Shabbat-later party, pleased to bring you more time Friday afternoon to prepare for Shabbat, over the objections of the Shabbat-earlier party, proponents of having time Saturday night for non-Sabbatical entertainments.)

Comments

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me! This is going to be confusing, since I will be springing an hour ahead on the day that I fly to CA, which is behind. So I guess it turns out to be zero sum.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Are you going to the Pleiades for it? :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the answer to some kid riddle, like the one about walking one mile south, then one mile east, then one mile north, ending up where he started. Etc.

So you'll be ahead of everyone else, having not "lost" the hour the rest of us did. Send messages from the future! ;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of it, but starfare is so expensive these days, and the snacks are just horrible.

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll lose it later eventually -- randomly in the middle of Thursday.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm of the "Shabbat right around 6:00 PM, please" party. We get something like 3 weeks a year.

I was in Cleveland for a wedding weeked a number of years back, on the latest Shabbat-start of the year. Shabbat didn't come in on Friday evening until 8:45 PM (since Cleveland's right at the edge of the timezone). And Motza"sh, the groom's family threw a party for the out-of-towners who were in for the wedding. Party couldn't start until almost 10. Was late night. Fun, but late.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it always seems that just when Shabbat's at the perfect time, the clocks change (in one direction or another). I don't want to deal with the constantly warmer weather; think there's some way to move the equator up here instead? ;-)

I remember a late Shabbat in Ireland, early June sometime. Shabbat didn't go out until close to 11 PM, which hit home when I got to seudah shlishit and found a full meal, not just hummus and pita. (Everyone took on Shabbat around 8, so there would be time enough for dinner.)

[queue.livejournal.com]

Why exactly is this a big deal? I would imagine the moon is in all sorts of constellations all the time.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Not sure; I assume it's because they're a bright, well-known constellation, and it happens rarely with them (and not always visible from here when it does).