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Eye On The Night Sky For Friday, April 3
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Eye On The Sky — Eye On The Night Sky For Friday, April 3. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm Mark Breen. Welcome to Night Sky for Friday, April 3. This Sunday, many Christians, specifically the Catholic Church and Protestant churches, celebrate Easter, which can occur as early as March 22, or as late as April 25. The variants in the date might seem confusing, but its roots are found in ancient observances of spring, woven around the spring equinox and the cycle of the moon. Many ancient cultures, at some point, used the moon as an element of time. Of course, the sun also dictated time through the length of days and the transitions through the seasons. Eventually, lunar solar calendars developed to make use of both time systems. Spring was typically observed on the first full moon following the equinox and included symbols like eggs and rabbits. As Christianity developed, the church blended some ancient traditions with Christian beliefs, transforming spring into Easter on the first Sunday following the first full moon after
the equinox. Next week, April's later evenings speed up some of our transitions on Night Sky. Night Sky is a production of remote public in the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.
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