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  2. List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    There will be 230 lunar eclipses in the 21st century (2001–2100): 87 penumbral, 58 partial and 85 total. [1] Eclipses are listed in sets by lunar years, repeating every 12 months for each node. Ascending node eclipses are given a red background highlight.

  3. Lunar calendar - Wikipedia

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    A lunisolar calendar was found at Warren Field in Scotland and has been dated to c. 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. [2] [3] Some scholars argue for lunar calendars still earlier—Rappenglück in the marks on a c. 17,000 year-old cave painting at Lascaux and Marshack in the marks on a c. 27,000 year-old bone baton—but their findings remain controversial.

  4. Lunar month - Wikipedia

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    In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive syzygies of the same type: new moons or full moons. The precise definition varies, especially for the beginning of the month. Animation of the Moon as it cycles through its phases, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. The apparent wobbling of the Moon is known as libration.

  5. Ephemeride Lunaire Parisienne - Wikipedia

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    Upon popular demand, the Chapronts also published ELP2000-85 [4] and a book, Lunar Programs and Tables [5] with a truncated version of their theory and with programs, that could be used by historians and amateur astronomers to compute the position of the Moon themselves. Jean Meeus used the ELP in his popular book Astronomical Algorithms (1991 ...

  6. Ecclesiastical full moon - Wikipedia

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    The first day of each of these lunar months is the ecclesiastical new moon. Exactly one ecclesiastical new moon in each year falls on a date between March 8 and April 5, both inclusive. This begins the paschal lunar month for that year, and thirteen days later (that is, between March 21 and April 18, both inclusive) is the paschal full moon.

  7. Coligny calendar - Wikipedia

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    A synodic month has 29.53 days, so the calendar overcomes any slight slippage or temporary imbalance by the month of MID EQVOS having either 29 or 30 days as required to keep the calendar in sync with the lunar phase. [b] The Coligny calendar is designed to keep perfectly in sync with the lunar phase, [c] with a tolerance of less than 24 hours ...

  8. Category:Lunar calendars - Wikipedia

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  9. Lichun - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The first one is known as lichun in Chinese, risshun in Japanese, ipchun in Korean, and lập xuân in Vietnamese. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 315° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 330°. It more often refers in particular to the day ...