Feast of Tabernacles 2007 Why?

(Calculated for Tyler State Park, Texas local time. Dates are the same for Washington D. C., Los Angeles, and all other places in the United States, from Miami in the south to Anchorage, Alaska in the North. Further below, you will see that these same dates also apply to Jerusalem, Palestine).

Feast of Trumpets -- Thursday Sept 13, 2007 (begins at sunset evening before).

Day of Atonement -- Saturday, Sept 22, 2007 (begins at sunset evening before)

Feast of Tabernacles -- Thursday, Sept 27 (begins sunset evening before) through Wednesday October 3, 2007, at sunset.

Last Great Day -- Thursday, October 4, 2007 (begins at sunset evening before).

Astronomical reference: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html#y2005

For New Moon data, go to: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
and key in "2007", "September" and "12", then "Texas" and "Tyler State Park" and finally "Get Data." Results are copied below. You will see that the astronomical New Moon occurs on September 11, 2007, at 7:44 a.m. Central Daylight Time, and the visible New Moon is on the day following (September 12) at sunset, and not before. At Sunset of this day, on the 12th day of the seventh lunar month, the Feast of Trumpets begins, for the geographical location of Tyler State Park, Texas. This Feast of Trumpets continues from Sunset, September 12 through Sunset September 13, 2007.

Other locations can be easily selected for determining the dates and times for other places.

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for Tyler, Smith County, Texas (longitude W95.3, latitude N32.3):

Wednesday
12 September 2007 Central Daylight Time

SUN

Begin civil twilight 6:38 a.m.
Sunrise 7:03 a.m.
Sun transit 1:18 p.m.
Sunset 7:32 p.m.
End civil twilight 7:56 p.m.

MOON

Moonset 7:37 p.m. on preceding day
Moonrise 8:02 a.m.
Moon transit 2:06 p.m.
Moonset 8:02 p.m.
Moonrise 8:58 a.m. on following day

Phase of the Moon on 12 September: waxing crescent with 1% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

New Moon on 11 September 2007 at 7:44 a.m. Central Daylight Time.

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U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for Jerusalem Palestine (longitude E31.0, latitude N35.0):

Wednesday
12 September 2007 Universal Time + 2h

SUN
Begin civil twilight 05:11
Sunrise 05:36
Sun transit 11:52
Sunset 18:08
End civil twilight 18:33

MOON
Moonset 18:04 on preceding day
Moonrise 06:17
Moon transit 12:27
Moonset 18:27
Moonrise 07:15 on following day

Phase of the Moon on 12 September: waxing crescent with 1% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

New Moon on 11 September 2007 at 14:44 (Universal Time + 2h).

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