{"id":4131,"date":"2026-02-02T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:00:57","slug":"full-moon-in-leo-feb-1-2026-2209-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon in Leo \u2013 Feb. 1, 2026, 22:09 UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Full Moon in Leo occurs in the same degree with plutino Achlys, one of the large trans-Neptunian bodies named last summer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4132\" src=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Full Moon in Leo\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026febfull.jpg 1581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">208996 Achlys was discovered on Jan. 13, 2003, by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown. Its shape is elongated and it has one known moon. Achlys is a third-largest known plutino after Pluto and Orcus. It has a mean diameter of about 770 kilometers and it is approximately 940 kilometers across its longest axis. The orbital period is 247.8 years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fi-FI\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Achlys was named on June 30, 2025, after the goddess of sorrow and grief. In Hesiod&#8217;s <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Shield of Heracles<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> Achlys is one of the figures described as being depicted on Heracles&#8217; shield, where she is understood as being the personification of sorrow or grief. Homer used the word achlys <\/span>to describe a mist that is &#8220;shed&#8221; upon a mortal&#8217;s eyes, often while dying.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fi-FI\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Nonnus, a notable Greek epic poet, regarded Achlys as a kind of witch. His <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Dionysiaca<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> describes the life of Dionysus. Zeus had instructed twelve rustic spirits of the Lamos river to guard and protect the infant Dionysus from Hera&#8217;s wrath. According to Nonnus, Hera &#8220;procured from Thessalian Achlys treacherous flowers of the field&#8221;, which she used to sprinkle a sleeping charm over their heads, then &#8220;she distilled poisoned drugs over their hair and smeared a magical ointment over their faces&#8221;, changing them into ox-horned Lamian centaurs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Full Moon in Leo occurs in the same degree with plutino Achlys, one of the large trans-Neptunian bodies named last summer. 208996 Achlys was discovered on Jan. 13, 2003, by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown. Its shape is elongated and it has one known moon. Achlys is a third-largest known plutino after Pluto and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[192,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}