Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have light snow giving way to a wintry mix, with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 4:22 PM, for 9h 19m 27s of daytime. The moon is a axing crescent with 40.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Magellan–Elcano voyage. Victoria, one of the original five ships, circumnavigated the globe, finishing 16 months after the explorer’s death. Via Wikipedia
On this day in 1520, Magellan reaches the Pacific:
….Magellan’s expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named “peaceful sea” by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific. His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines.
At 52°S latitude on 21 October, the fleet reached Cape Virgenes and concluded they had found the passage, because the waters were brine and deep inland. Four ships began an arduous trip through the 373-mile (600 km) long passage that Magellan called the Ostrich (Canal) de Todos los Santos, (“All Saints’ Channel”), because the fleet travelled through it on 1 November or All Saints’ Day. The strait is now named the Strait of Magellan. He first assigned Concepcion and San Antonio to explore the strait, but the latter, commanded by Gómez, deserted and returned to Spain on 20 November. On 28 November, the three remaining ships entered the South Pacific. Magellan named the waters the Mar Pacifico (Pacific Ocean) because of its apparent stillness.[21] Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to reach Tierra del Fuego just east of the Pacific side of the strait….
Google-a-Day has a question about astrology:
What star in the Milky Way passes all five tests scientists require for it to be a candidate for extraterrestrial life?