Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:33 AM and sunset 8:09 PM for 14h 35m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1862, the USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
Cats of Yore explains when domestic cats had their own constellation:
Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was invented by astronomer ?Joseph ?Jérôme ?de ?Lalande in 1799, but the @IAU_org dumped Felis when they created an official set of constellation boundaries in 1930. https://t.co/V9LmRbcF5D pic.twitter.com/Yse8OBwdvn
— Cats of Yore (@CatsOfYore) May 5, 2023
Forging Forgotten Ancient Greek Armor: