6:31 was when the chariot of Helios began to grace the Roman skies.
19:51 is when Pyrois, Eous, Aethon, and Phlegon will seeks their nightly stable.
20:00 is when the Ave Maria Bell should ring according to the cycle on the curial calendar.
However, if we are being picky about solar time, the Ave Maria could also follow the sun, and ring precisely one half hour after sunset. So, following the sun strictly, the solar Ave Maria this evening would ring at 20:21
On the new Six Hour Clock App I wrote about yesterday, I have a slightly different time for sunset, that is, 19:48 – 3 minutes sooner than the curial calendar shows. I suppose this could be a matter of the location where the calendar’s time was calculated. I am going to guess that it is calculated not in Rome, but at Castel Gandolfo, the summer papal palace but also the site of the Vatican Observatory. And….
… nope, lookie here.
Why the 3 minute discrepancy? You would not expect there to be a 3 minute difference between Rome and Vatican City. Possible explanations are a different computational convention, rounding method, or a simple calendar-table issue. It might be a horizon angle difference, depending on where the observations were made (and who knows when and by what means). Another possibility, and this is likely explanation, laziness.
This will only drive me slightly crazy.
Too bad the app doesn’t have a “coordinate with the Curia calendar” option.
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Last night I did some more cooking. I roasted a spatchcocked chicken.
But first, a shot from Exposition yesterday after Vespers.
Getting the veg ready. I tossed it in batches in a frying pan.
And put a little color on the chicken. After I warmed up some broth.
I wanted to thicken the liquid, but I don’t have any flour. However, I remembered once using a few psyllium capsules. Not quite the same, but in a pinch, improvise, adapt, overcome!
This was as good as I have ever made. The veg were celery, onion, carrot, fennel, garlic and lemon. The liquid, chix broth and white wine.
The lemon chunks with the peel were incredible, like candy, and served as my dessert.
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