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A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, September 25, 1969, the last of three penumbral lunar eclipses in 1969, the first being on Wednesday, April 2, and the second being on Wednesday, August 27. At maximum eclipse, 90% of the Moon's disc was partially shaded by the Earth, which caused a slight shadow gradient across its disc; this ...
Relationship between the current Sexagenary cycle and Gregorian calendar. This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.
A total of 229 lunar eclipses took place in the 20th century: 83 penumbral, 65 partial and 81 total. [1] See also: Lists of lunar eclipses, List of 19th-century lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses.
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.
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, April 2, 1969, the first of three penumbral lunar eclipses in 1969, the second being on Wednesday, August 27, and the last being on Thursday, September 25. This subtle penumbral eclipse may have been visible to a skilled observer at maximum eclipse. 70.337% of the Moon's disc was partially ...
The Bulgar calendar used from the 2nd century [34] and that has been only partially reconstructed uses a similar sixty-year cycle of twelve animal-named years groups. [35] The Old Mongol calendar uses the Mouse, the Ox, the Leopard, the Hare, the Crocodile, the Serpent, the Horse, the Sheep, the Monkey, the Hen, the Dog and the Hog. [36]
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, August 27, 1969, the second of three penumbral lunar eclipses in 1969, the first being on Wednesday, April 2, and the last being on Thursday, September 25. [1] This is the last lunar eclipse of Saros 108.
Modification of the International Fixed Calendar, starting with Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20 July 1969 [17] Holocene calendar: solar: Gregorian: 1993 — The Gregorian calendar with the era shifted by 10,000 years. Juche era calendar: solar: Gregorian: 1997: North Korea: Gregorian calendar with the era 1912 (birth of Kim Il-sung) Nanakshahi ...