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Coast Guard Days, July 17-19

Dedicated to the men and women of the United States
Coast Guard. Come and celebrate the contributions
they make to the Blue Water Area and to our country.

Custom Fitted covers for
your Boat & Car

∙Custom Upholstery∙

∙Repair Rebate Program∙ Events on Saturday, July 18:
∙Year Round Mobile Service∙ Opening flag ceremony 9:30 a.m. Great Lakes Maritime Center

Complete Dockside Service Activities from 10am-5pm include:
for Repairs & New Covers Tours of the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse Grounds, Coast Guard Station
Port Huron, Huron Lightship, USCGC Bramble, Helicopter Rescue
Servicing Free Estimates Demo, Boat Parade starting 1:10pm at the mouth of the Black River
Sailboat & Power Same Day Service
Boat Needs for over and heading up the St. Clair River to the Seaway Terminal.
Call Us at Trolley rides available between locations with parking at the
25 Years 586-776-4718
Great Lakes Maritime Center, 51 Water St. Port Huron.
6pm Celebration Cookout at the Seaway Terminal, 2336 Military
Street, Port Huron. Visit www.porthuron.org/eventscalendar.aspx or
call 810.841.5507 for further information & tickets for the cookout.

Fully Insured The difference be- Sirius. It is twice as bright as any other
tween 365.25 days and “star” in our sky but not as bright as the
Continued from Page 10 365.25636 days, over a span of 3200 years, Moon, Venus, or Jupiter.
"The Dog Days of Summer" is 20 days. If such a tiny difference of
0.00636 days per year was not accounted Due to the earth’s wobble and its gravita-
back wall of the innermost shrine on Febru- for, the date of illumination of this statue tional changes to the Sun and Moon, Sirius
ary 22nd and October 22 of each year. would have changed from its original date no longer marks the hottest part of summer
many years ago. but rises later in the year.

The Egyptians added Orion's It is best seen in the
days to their calen- Belt evening skies of winter
dars to account for through mid-spring.
this loss of a 1/4 day Sirius For most of the U.S.,
each year. In Ro- it rises in the south-
man times, which east, crosses low to the
has now evolved into south, and sets in the
our modern calendar, southwestern sky.
adding in our leap
year date of Febru- It rises by mid-eve-
ary 29th every four ning in December, and
years adjusts the cal- by mid-April it is set-
endar to perfection ting in the southwest
with Sirius. at about the same time.
Although it is easy to find because of its
The long duration of the shrine illumina- brilliance, anyone familiar with Orion can
tion is only possible because of the accu- simply draw a line through Orion’s Belt,
racy of the Ancient Egyptian calendar that to the left. Sirius is roughly 8 times as far
followed the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star. from the Belt as the Belt is wide from one
side to the other.

All stars shine but none are brighter than

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