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2. Lunar calendar - Wikipedia

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   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. [ a] A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose ...

3. Lunar phase - Wikipedia

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   A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon 's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth). In common usage, the four major phases are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter; the four minor ...

4. Korean calendar - Wikipedia

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   Culture of Korea. The traditional Korean calendar or Dangun calendar ( Korean : 단군; Hanja : 檀君) is a lunisolar calendar. Dates are calculated from Korea's meridian ( 135th meridian east in modern time for South Korea), and observances and festivals are based in Korean culture . Koreans now mostly use the Gregorian calendar, which was ...

5. Astronomical symbols - Wikipedia

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   The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.

6. Full moon - Wikipedia

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   The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth 's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (when the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180° ). [3] This means that the lunar hemisphere facing Earth—the near side —is completely sunlit and appears as an ...

7. File:Moon Phases 2022 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K.webm

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   English: This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale.

8. Cherokee calendar - Wikipedia

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   As such the 13-moon phase calendar was gradually replaced by a 12-month calendar. However, the months were still associated with ceremonies and are still practiced by traditional Cherokee today. Below is a list of months according to the Julian calendar followed by their Latin transliterated Kituwah and Overhill dialect name and then Cherokee ...

9. November 2022 lunar eclipse - Wikipedia

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   A total lunar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. The southern limb of the Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. It surpassed the previous eclipse as the longest total lunar eclipse visible from nearly all of North America since 17 August 1989, and until 26 June 2029.