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Petavius is a large lunar impact crater located to the southeast of the Mare Fecunditatis, near the southeastern lunar limb. Attached to the northwest rim is the smaller crater Wrottesley . To the southeast are Palitzsch , Vallis Palitzsch, and Hase .
Location of Catharina (Selenochromatic Image) Catharina is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the southern highlands. It was named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria. [1] It lies in a rugged stretch of land between the Rupes Altai scarp to the west and Mare Nectaris in the east.
The Mongolian Lunar New Year, commonly known as Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian: Цагаан сар ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ, pronounced [t͡sʰɐˈʁaːɴ sɐr] or literally White Moon), [note 1] is the first day of the year according to the Mongolian lunisolar calendar. The festival of the Lunar New Year is celebrated by Mongolic and some Turkic ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
Warren Field is the location of a mesolithic calendar monument built about 8,000 BCE. [1] It includes 12 pits believed to correlate with phases of the Moon and used as a lunisolar calendar. [2] It is considered to be the oldest lunisolar calendar yet found. [3] [4] [5] It is near Crathes Castle, in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland, in the ...
It is the largest of the lunar features designated Lacus. Lacus Somniorum is an irregular feature with complex, somewhat ill-defined borders. The surface has the same low albedo as the larger lunar mare found on the Moon, and its surface was formed by flows of basaltic lava. The mare material contains what is described as, "unusually bright and ...
Albategnius is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the central highlands. It is named after the Mesopotamian Muslim astronomer and scientist Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī , Latinized as Albategnius .
Located on the west coast of Ōmishima Island the shrine is situated at the western foot of Mt. Washigatou (436.5 meters), which is considered a sacred mountain.The shrine is in a grove of camphor trees, the oldest of which are between 2,600 and 3,000 years old. [4]