Sun enters Ophiuchus n o v 3 o ⇀ d e c l 8

Venus will reach perihelion – its closest point to the sun in its orbit – on November 29, 2015. Venus’ orbit is the closest to being circular of all the planets in our solar system. Its distance from the sun only varies by only about 1.5% between perihelion and aphelion (farthest point from the sun). Venus is well known for its 8-year cycles. This planet – which orbits the sun one step inward from Earth – swings to perihelion 13 times every 8 years. So Venus’ 13th return to perihelion will happen some 8 years from now – on November 28, 2023 – with Venus and Spica returning to virtually the same spot in the November 2023 morning sky.

Venus returns to perihelion 13 times in 8 years:

  1. 2016 July 10
  2. 2017 Feb 20
  3. 2017 Oct 3
  4. 2018 May 16
  5. 2018 Dec 26
  6. 2019 Aug 8
  7. 2020 Mar 20
  8. 2020 Oct 30
  9. 2021 Jun 12
 10. 2022 Jan 23
 11. 2022 Sep 4
 12. 2023 Apr 17
 13. 2023 Nov 28   link: earthsky. org

Zemlinsky l871-l942 // Bernd Alois Zimmermann l9l8-l97o // Udo Zimmermann l943 John Luther Adams l953

我 環 顧 四 周，見 日 光 下 所 行 皆 非 正 義  I turned and considered all the injustice that are committed under the sun

四 百 擊 / 痛 打。 假使我吻她 必先殺了她

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Eupatorium formosanum 台灣澤蘭 Taiwan Agrimony
Eupatorium clematideum 高士佛澤蘭
Chromolaena odorata syn. Eupatorium odoratum 香澤蘭, 飞机草
Mikania micrantha 小花蔓澤蘭

E u p a t o r i u m L., named for Mithridates VI of Pontus (135–63 BC), also known as Eupator (出身高貴) Dionysius, who is said to have discovered an antidote to a commonly used poison in one of the species. C h r o m o l a e n a DC., the name is derived from the Greek chroma, color, and laina, cloak; refering to the colored phyllaries of some species. M i k a n i a Willd., the name honors the Czech botanist Johann Christian Mikan (1743-1814).

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