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December's Black New Moon 2024. The perfect setting for fireworks awaits! There's no better way to ring in 2025 than by lighting up the night sky with a dazzling display on New Year's Eve — and ...
December is coming to an end with a "black moon" on Monday night, Dec. 30, but those hoping to see the phenomenon will be out of luck. That's because a black moon is the term for the second new ...
When February is without new moon, then the preceding December or January and the following March or April will have two new moons. [2] [3] As with the case of two new moons in a month, whether a black moon by this definition occurs depends on the time zone. Calculated in UTC, instances of a month without new moon between 1990 and 2040 are: [10 ...
The end of the month will see a special kind of new moon, that has been nicknamed a “black moon.” A new moon is one of the moon’s eight phases. It marks its invisible phase, with the ...
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A waning moon. The term dark moon describes the last visible crescent of a waning Moon. The duration of a dark moon varies between 1.5 and 3.5 days, depending on its ecliptic latitude. In current astronomical usage, the new moon occurs in the middle of this dark period, [1] when the Moon and Sun are in conjunction. This definition has entered ...
December 30, 2024: The second new moon in a single calendar month. The first will occur on December 1, 2024. August 23, 2025: The third new moon in a season with four new moons.
The Lunation Number or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a specific one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines "lunation 1" as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.