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2. Lunar calendar - Wikipedia

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   Lunar calendar year 2025. A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year. The most widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar.

3. Lunisolar calendar - Wikipedia

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   A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates both the Moon phase and the time of the solar year , that is the position of the Sun in the Earth's sky .

4. Lunar phase - Wikipedia

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   The lunar phases and librations in 2024 as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere at hourly intervals, with titles and supplemental graphics The lunar phases and librations in 2024 as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere at hourly intervals, with titles and supplemental graphics A full moon sets behind San Gorgonio Mountain in California on a midsummer's morning.

5. Lunar New Year - Wikipedia

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   The Lunar Hijri calendar used by most of Islam, is a purely lunar calendar comprising 12 lunar months: its year is shorter by about ten or eleven days than the Gregorian calendar year. Consequently Islamic New Year 's Day may fall in any season: occasionally there can be two Islamic new years in one Gregorian year (as last happened in 2008).

6. March 2025 lunar eclipse - Wikipedia

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   A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Friday, March 14, 2025, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.1804. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow.

7. Ecclesiastical full moon - Wikipedia

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   The ecclesiastical lunar calendar spans the year with lunar months of 30 and 29 days which are intended to approximate the observed phases of the Moon. Since a true synodic month has a length that can vary from about 29.27 to 29.83 days, the moment of astronomical opposition tends to be roughly 14.75 days after the previous conjunction of the ...