#delta equinox

[deebaboo]

[idgafherobrine]

Where could one find any of your Herobrines if they needed him?

For RP purposes: once Hieronymous is done hanging out with PAX (@ask-pax), he can be found at one of his temporary cottages, namely the one he has somewhat near PAX's place of work (maybe half a kilometer away), for the time being. It's a quaint little home in an oak forest.

As for Delta, she doesn't have a set home where she can be found, but she's currently traveling through a snowy spruce forest (subject to change as she travels, of course).

For ask purposes: both Hieronymous and Delta (and any of the other characters) can be sent non-RP asks regardless of their locations.

[stardust-in-my-mind-blog]

wild creatures

when I was a child I liked to bring home snakes

mostly gardener snakes I'd find up by the gravel road

I'd ride my bike down dusty paths and see them cross

pedal faster as though to greet a new friend

flip off the handlebars mostly accidently

but sometimes on purpose to grasp

usually nothing but sometimes I'd get a stinky tail

one time I got a full grown bull snake and got bit for my efforts

I never put a lid on the glass mason jars I kept them in

and so they'd eventually get out and live in the house

I'm sure my mother was very pleased by this hobby

because today our household gained a new cicada

and my son is determined to love it forever

even to the point of bleeding when he went collecting

blackberry leaves for his new little friend

he has more wisdom than me already

and added a lid with holes for his shy thorax singer

these kids never stop giving me complex joy

I'm so lucky they found me to love them

and today that's the beginning and the end of everything

in this spring grown heart of mine finally becoming like

the long green grass that dance in warm breezes

turning gold in the setting sun of summer's dream

[eranjayne]

Finding Nemo Jr. Coming to Tsawwassen!

I can't WAIT to see Delta Youth Theatre's production of Finding Nemo Jr.! Check out their promo photos!

Have you got your tickets yet?!? Finding Nemo Jr. is swimming into the Equinox Theatre at SDSS in just two short weeks and I, for one, can’t wait to see it! Full of giant, colourful puppets of everyone’s favourite Nemo characters and catchy tunes that have had me humming for weeks (my kid is in the show!), Finding Nemo Jr. is a theatrical feast for everyone in the whole family! Here’s the scoop…

[isagrimorie]

I know everyone praises Geordi La Forge and Miles O'Brien up and down as current Legends of Engineering but I'm going to push B'Elanna Torres up that pedestal too.

If Chief O'Brien is praised jury rigging Starfleet tech-Bajoran tech and Cardassian tech together. B'Elanna gets double of that she had to jury rig on the fly: Starfleet Tech, Borg Tech, and some Weird Alien Tech they come across to keep Voyager afloat.

On top of Voyager being the top-of-the-line new tech she hadn't heard of yet when she was in the Maquis.

She had to learn it all on the fly and become head of the Engineering department just like that. And keep Voyager trucking along the Delta Quadrant in great working condition.

And we know how it would look like if Voyager didn't have B'Elanna around: You'd get the Equinox.

Everything's falling apart, they barely have any lights or amenities. Granted Equinox wasn't built for deep space exploration still the difference is literally night and day.

And yeah, B'Elanna had help with Seven of Nine but that also shows how great she is that even though Seven's intrusions annoy her, she still learns and listens. She learned how to work with a team and became damned good at it.

This is also a credit to Captain Janeway who still insisted on running Voyager as a tight ship, if she hadn't... again, Equinox is the example.

So, yeah, Best Engineer for me is B'Elanna Torres.

[chernobog13]

The USS Equinox, the Nova-class starship found stranded in the Delta Quadrant by USS Voyager.

And deck plans for the Nova-class starships.

[moneeb0930]

ORIGINS OF HAPI (NILE) VALLEY CIVILIZATION

The progenitors of the Nile Valley civilization were Nilo-Saharan peoples who migrated to the Hapi (Nile) Valley from the Green Sahara, Nubia and Northeast Africa. The cattle cults of Het-Heru (Hathor), spiritual beliefs, iconography and cultural motifs associated with the old Kingdom can be traced to these regions prior to the unification of the two lands. The science of mummification began in Libya with the 5600 year old Tashwinat Mummy, known as the “Black Mummy of the Green Sahara''. The Black Mummy predates the oldest Kemetic mummy by over 1000 years. Astronomy and the study of the procession of the equinox began in South Africa at the site of the Adams Calendar Stone Circle and continued at the Napta Playa Stone circle located in modern day Sudan. This 7000 year old ceremonial center dried out around 3400 BC and they transferred their knowledge into the Nile Valley. The earliest images of Pharaonic Kingship were found in Nubia at the site of Qustul were the oldest depiction of Pharaonic Kingship is shown on the Qustul incense Burner. The original populations of the Nile Valley were no different than modern Sudanese, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somali populations of today with a mixture of western Eurasians via the Levant whom for the most part settled in the Delta region. The cultural overlap of Kush and Kemet existed from the very dawn of Hapi Valley civilization and the cultural fusion was expressed in the customs and spiritual beliefs of its early inhabitants. These ancient traditions are continually practiced in Africa to this day.

Below are the results from a genome project conducted by Dr. Shomarka Keita, a Research Affiliate and Biological Anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and Dr. A. J. Boyce, who works at the Institute of Biological Anthropology and St. John's College

Oxford University.

PROJECT MUSE

Genetics, Egypt, and History: Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation

IV, XI, V=Nilotic African

VII, VIII=Near Eastern

235 S.O.Y. Keita and A. J. Boyce

Early speakers of Nilosaharan and Afroasiatic apparently interacted based on the evidence of loan words (Ehret, personal communication). Nilosaharan’s current range is roughly congruent with the so-called Saharo-Sudanese or Aqualithic culture associated with the less arid period (Wendorf and Schild 1980), and therefore cannot be seen as intrusive. Its speakers are found from the Nile to the Niger rivers in the Sahara and Sahel, and south into Kenya. The eastern Sahara was likely a micro-evolutionary processor and pump of populations, who may have developed various specific sociocultural (and linguistic) identities, but were genealogically “mixed” in terms of origins.

These identities may have further crystallized on the Nile, or fused with those of resident populations that were already differentiated. The genetic profile of the Nile Valley via the fusion of the Saharans and the indigenous peoples were likely established in the main, long before the Middle Kingdom. Post-neolithic/predynastic population growth, as based on extrapolations from settlement patterns (Butzer 1976) would have led to relative genetic stability. The population of Egypt at the end of the pre-dynastic is estimated to have been greater than 800,000, but was not evenly distributed along the valley corridor, being most concentrated in locales of important settlements (Butzer 1976). Nubia, as noted, was less densely populated.

Interactions between Nubia and Egypt (and the Sahara as well) occurred in the period between 4000 and 3000 BCE (the predynastic). There is evidence for sharing of some cultural traits between Sudan and Egypt in the neolithic (Kroeper 1996). Some items of “material” culture were also shared in the phase called Naqada I between the Nubian A-Group and upper Egypt (~3900-3650 BCE). There is good evidence for a zone of cultural overlap versus an absolute boundary (Wilkinson 1999 after Hoffman 1982, and citing evidence from Needler 1984 and Adams 1996). Hoffman (1982) noted cattle burials in Hierakonpolis, the most important of predynastic upper Egyptian cities in the later predynastic. This custom might reflect Nubian cultural impact, a common cultural background, or the presence of Nubians.

Whatever the case, there was some cultural and economic bases for all levels of social intercourse, as well as geographical proximity. There was some shared iconography in the kingdoms that emerged in Nubia and upper Egypt around 3300 BCE (Williams 1986). Although disputed, there is evidence that Nubia may have even militarily engaged upper Egypt before Dynasty I, and contributed leadership in the unification of Egypt (Williams 1986). The point of reviewing these data is to illustrate that the evidence suggests a basis for social interaction, and gene exchange.

236 S.O.Y. Keita and A. J. Boyce

There is a caveat for lower Egypt. If neolithic/predynastic northern Egyptian populations were characterized at one time by higher frequencies of VII and VIII (from Near Eastern migration), then immigration from Saharan sources could have brought more V and XI (Nilo-Saharan) in the later northern neolithic. It should further be noted that the ancient Egyptians interpreted their unifying king, Narmer (either the last of Dynasty 0, or the first of Dynasty I), as having been upper Egyptian and moving from south to north with victorious armies (Gardiner 1961, Wilkinson 1999). However, this may only be the heraldic “fixation” of an achieved politi- cal and cultural status quo (Hassan 1988), with little or no actual troup/population movements. Nevertheless, it is upper Egyptian (predy- nastic) culture that comes to dominate the country and emerges as the basis of dynastic civilization. Northern graves over the latter part of the predynastic do become like those in the south (see Bard 1994); some migration to the north may have occurred—of people as well as ideas.

238-239 S.O.Y. Keita and A. J. Boyce

After the early late pleistocene/holocene establishment of Afroasiatic-speaking populations in the Nile valley and Sahara, who can be inferred to have been predominantly, but not only V (and XI), and of Nilosaharan folk in Nubia, Sudan, and Sahara (mainly XI and IV?), mid- holocene climatic-driven migrations led to a major settlement of the valley in upper Egypt and Nubia, but less so in lower Egypt, by diverse Saharans having haplotypes IV, XI, and V in proportions that would significantly influence the Nile valley-dwelling populations.

These mid-Holocene Saharans are postulated to have been part of a process that led to a diverse but connected metapopulation. These peoples fused with the indigenous valley peoples, as did Near Easterners with VII and VIII, but perhaps also some V. With population growth the genetic profiles would become stabilized. Nubian and upper Egyptian proximity and on some level, shared culture, Nubia’s possible participation in Egyptian state-building, and later partial political absorption in Dynasty I, would have reinforced biological overlap (and been further “stabilized” by ongoing population growth).

Source:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187884

HEAD to HEAD: Ancient Egypt Reconstructions COMPARED (Bas Uterwijk vs TKM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8iN6EFVTbQ&t=35s

Visit A Virtual Museum:

https://www.knowthyselfinstitute.com/museum

"I have not spoken angrily or arrogantly. I have not cursed anyone in thought, word or deeds." ~35th & 36th Principals of Ma'at

[the-cool-space-nerd]

1/1/2024

Hey guys! I know it’s been a while, life has just been kind of crazy recently. Below, I have put together a list of all the astronomical events to look forward to this year. Enjoy!

January 3: Earth at perihelion

January 3-4: Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak

January 11: New Moon

January 12: Mercury at greatest western elongation

January 25: Full Moon

February 9: New Moon

February 24: Full Moon

March 10: New Moon

March 20: March Equinox

March 22: Possible viewing of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

March 24: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation

March 25: Full Moon, Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

April 8: New Moon, Total Solar Eclipse

April 21-23: Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak

April 23: Full Moon

May 4-5: Moon Earthshine Mornings

May 6-7: Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak

May 8: New Moon

May 9: Mercury at greatest western elongation

May 11-12: Moon Earthshine Nights

May 23: Full Moon

June 6: New Moon

June 20: June Solstice

June 22: Full Moon

July 5: New Moon, Earth at aphelion

July 21: Full Moon

July 22: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation

July 28-29: Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak

August 4: New Moon

August 12-13: Perseids Meteor Shower Peak

August 14: Conjuction of Mars and Jupiter

August 19: Full Moon

August 21: Lunar Occulation of Saturn

August 28: Possible views of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

September 3: New Moon

September 5: Mercury at greatest western elongation

September 8: Saturn at opposition

September 18: Full Moon, Supermoon, Partial Lunar Eclipse

September 20: Neptune at opposition

September 22: September Equinox

October 2: New Moon, Annular Solar Eclipse, Micromoon

October 7-9: Draconids Meteor Shower Peak

October 17: Full Moon, Supermoon

October 20-22: Orionids Meteor Shower Peak

November 1: New Moon

November 4-5: Taurids Meteor Shower Peak

November 15: Full Moon

November 16: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation

November 17-18: Leonid Meteor Shower Peak

December 1: New Moon

December 7: Jupiter at opposition

December 14-15: Geminid Meteor Shower Peak

December 15: Full Moon

December 21: December Solstice

December 22-23: Ursid Meteor Shower Peak

December 25: Mercury at greatest western elongation

December 30: New Moon

***Please let me know if there are any mistakes I need to correct. This list was compiled using multiple websites, so some dates may be a day or two off. I also tried to keep this list inclusive to both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres***

Image credit: @cora.a.harris on Instagram

[ebonysolcum]

Why would anyone on the Equinox call the alien on the Array “The Caretaker”?

“The Caretaker” is what the Ocampa called him. They’re the only people who have a reason to call him that since he’s actually taking care of him. But my understanding is that the Equinox never met the Ocampa. They spend their first week in the Delta Quadrant fighting a species that Voyager never encountered. So how did they get that name?

[baroquehedgewitch]

✨Astro Calendar 2023✨

⁺₊⋆ ☾ ⋆⁺₊ Lunar Events: ⁺₊⋆ ☾ ⋆⁺₊

● Jan 7th Full Moon in Cancer

○ Jan 22nd New Moon in Aquarius -  Lunar New Year

● Feb 6th Full Moon in Leo

○ Feb 20th New Moon in Pisces

● March 7th Full Moon in Virgo  

○ March 22nd New Moon in Leo

● April 6th Full Moon in Libra

○ April 20th New Moon in Aries 
◉ Total Eclipse

● May 6th Full Moon in Scorpio ◉ Total Eclipse

○ May 20th New Moon in Taurus

● June 4th Full Moon in Sagittarius

○ June 18th New Moon in Gemini

● July 3rd Full Moon in Capricorn

○ July 18th New Moon in Cancer

● Aug 2nd Full Moon in Aquarius - Supermoon

○ Aug 16th New Moon in Leo

● Aug 31st Full Moon in Pisces - Blue Moon

○ Sep 15th New Moon in Virgo

● Sep 29th Full Moon in Aries

○ Oct 15th New Moon in Libra ◉ Annular Eclipse

● Oct 29th Full Moon in Taurus ◉ Partial Eclipse

○ Nov 13th New Moon in Scorpio

● Nov 27th Full Moon in Gemini

○ Dec 13th New Moon in Sagittarius

● Dec 27th Full Moon in Cancer

⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊ Wheel of the Year: ⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊

✧˖°.☼.°˖✧Southern Hemisphere✧˖°.☼.°˖✧

Lammas/Lughnasadh  Feb 2nd

Mabon/Autumn Equinox  March 21st

Samhain May 1st

Yule/Winter Solstice Jun 22nd

Imbolc Aug 1st

Ostara/Spring Equinox Sep 23rd

Beltane Oct 31st

Litha/Summer Solstice Dec 22nd

✧˖°.☼.°˖✧Northern Hemisphere✧˖°.☼.°˖✧

Imbolc Feb 1st

Ostara/Spring Equinox March 30th

Beltane May 1st

Litha/Summer Solstice June 21st

Lammas/Lughnasadh Aug 1st

Mabon/Autumn Equinox Sep 22d

Samhain Oct 31st

Yule/Winter Solstice Dec 21st

˖⁺‧₊˚  ˚₊‧⁺˖Retrogrades & Directs: ˖⁺‧₊˚  ˚₊‧⁺˖

☿ Mercury

RX 29th Dec 2022 --> 19th Jan  //  20 Days

RX 21st April --> 15th May  //  23 Days

RX 24th Aug --> 16th Sep  //  23 Days

RX 13th Dec --> 2nd Jan 2024  //  19 Days

♁ Venus RX  23rd Jul --> 4th Sep  //  42 Days

♂️Mars RX 31st Oct 2022 --> 13th Jan  //  74 Days

♃ Jupiter RX 5th Sep --> 31st Dec  //  117 Days

♄ Saturn RX 18th June --> 4th Nov  // 139 Days

♅ Uranus

RX 24th Aug --> 23rd Jan  //  151 Days

RX 29th Aug --> 27th Jan 2024  //  151 Days

♆ Neptune RX 1st Jul --> 7th Dec  //  158 Days

♇ Pluto RX 2nd May --> 11th Oct  //  162 Days

* ⋆·˚ ༘ * 🔭 Astro Events to See:  * ⋆·˚ ༘ * 🔭

Quadrantids Meteor Shower 1st-7th Jan; Peaks on the 3rd. Full Moon

Venus Conjunct Saturn Jan 22nd

Venus Conjunct Jupiter March 1st

Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower 19th April -28th May. Strongest in Southern Hemisphere

Lyrids Meteor Shower 16th-25th April, peak on the 22nd/23rd

Venus near Pleiades & Hyades star clusters April 21st/22nd  (20 meteors per hour)

Venus-Mars-Moon Triangle May 23rd

Beehive Star Cluster near Mars & Venus June 1st/2nd

Venus-Mars-Moon Triangle June 6th

Moon Venus Mars Visible low in the west on the Solstice of June 21st

Delta Aquarids July 12th - Aug 23rd; peak 28th/29th July

Perseids Meteor Shower begins July 27th and peaks on 12th Aug

Blue Moon Aug 31st

Oct 14th Partial Solar Eclipse, visible to Southern USA; Gulf of Mexico

Leonids Nov 3rd - Dec 2nd; peak Nov 18th

Geminids Meteor Shower Dec 4th - 17th, peak on the 12th (120-160 meteors per hour)

[deebaboo]

[idgafherobrine]

[To the character of your choice], a letter is brought by a small, black bird with red eyes. On the envelope is a wax seal with the metters 'MF'. The contents include a small purple gem carved to look like an ender eye, and a letter.

" To the receipient of this seal, I am offering a Day pass to the Basement of The Mountaineer Front. When arriving, present this to the door to pass through unscathed. We eagerly await your future patronage. " - Dova Endari (@crossbowtrades)

Oh? A letter? Delta hadn't been expecting any mail, sent by a strange bird no less, so she assumed it wasn't for her, but curiosity got the better of her, and she opened the letter anyway.

"Basement? Unscathed? Is this some kind of trafficking ring? If it is... I have to go. I have to stop it."

She pocketed the purple gem, noting its fine craftsmanship, then knelt down to the little messenger bird.

"Will you show me the way to the Mountaineer Front?"

[b33anie]

Aries star designs :D

So I was working on an Aries thing since Gemini is a character, and here are some of the littles I’ve finished <3

(A random thing but unlike Castor and Pollux the mini’s don’t combine and turn into Aries they just kinda exist as little menaces around Aries)

Heres Lilii <3, meant to represent Spring (Vernal Equinox)

And then Delta (or Ari) Meant to represent Autumn (the sun is swapped on the two of them)

And Aries if you didn’t see my other post

The gold is for the mythology part of it and then I did a ton of research on the constellation itself as well as zodiac sign things

I avoided using black because it’s generally thought of as an unlucky color for Aries

[eranjayne]

DYT presents The Sound of Music | Tsawwassen Event Photographer

The hills are alive! With DYT's The Sound of Music, running Dec. 1 - 10 in Tsawwassen!

It’s that time of year again! Delta Youth Theatre is hard at work, putting the finishing touches on their fall production of The Sound of Music: Youth Edition. In Austria, 1938, an exuberant young governess brings music and joy back to a broken family, only to face danger and intrigue as the Nazis gain power. This beloved production is a multi-generational favourite that will feature performances…

[isagrimorie]

I'm enjoying my slow rewatch of Prodigy season 2. I love Zero sacrificing their physical body and taking from everything they've learned.

Also, the rebuilding of the Protostar seems to actualize the journey the Voyager writers wanted Voyager to take for Year of Hell, and they finally got to do it.

In the first watch of Prodigy season 2, I didn't hear that Paris designed the Nova Flyers and, of course, he did. The Nova Flyers had manual yokes to control it. It made it so much more slicker to fly and honestly, again these Flyers are a page out of Voyager where it had smaller shuttles threading the needle a Big Ship couldn't.

But also, I love that we're finally seeing in this show Janeway command more than one vessel. It's something some fans have been clamoring for ever since Equinox gave the tantalizing taste of Voyager having two ships journeying through the Delta Quadrant.

It's always going to be a no-go with Equinox since the ship is smaller and slower, and so much more badly damaged. Then again that's something they could fix.

And Janeway would rather dismantle the means Equinox flies faster than use that.

Also, Voyager the show has always teased Janeway commanding a Fleet like a Fleet Captain status all the way from Year of Hell to the Void. Prodigy just realized it.

Year of Hell, part 2

Equinox, Part 1

The Void

Star Trek Prodigy, season 2

It's kind of awesome we get to see Janeway in control of a 'fleet' even if it's only another ship.

[the-a-j-universe]

Challenge accepted.

Why did Voyager never use its areoshuttle despite it doing the excact same thing the delta flyer did?

Also grumble grumble the intrepid is supposed to be a short range response vessel not a long term science ship I hate STO for doing that to it.

Voyager was a frigate. It was a heavily scientifically prepared frigate, but it was built as a miniature Galaxy-class, of course it can handle long-term assignments.

The show crew clearly forgot about the Aeroshuttle. That's the real reason why. They also had some strong aversion to Voyager having a proper support fleet, hence why they were going to scuttle Dreadnought, and strip Equinox for parts instead of keep either as an escort. But as much as I love the Delta Flyer, some project for Tom to restore a damaged Aeroshuttle would've been way cooler.

As to why, in-universe, they never used it, it had to have been somehow damaged beyond repair. Which is insane to say, as Voyager was also often damaged to that point, but got fixed up anyway. But if we assume that there was some component on the Aeroshuttle that, for some shortsighted reason, was harder to replace than it was to just build a new shuttle with a more common iteration of that component, and that the Aeroshuttle either wasn't ready at launch, or was damaged in the displacement wave, it makes a little sense.

I don't know why it would've been designed like that, but hey, even Starfleet engineers can be idiots sometimes.

It's so weird, though, from a production standpoint, that they wouldn't use the crap out of that thing. Voyager was an expensive show, and they were always looking for ways to cut costs, so they could afford their next big cgi battle sequence, and the Aeroshuttle was specifically designed to help with that, seeing how it's interiors could've been represented by light redresses of the Denube-class runabout sets.