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Lists of lunar eclipses. 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.
Blue moon. A blue moon refers either to the presence of a second full moon in a calendar month, to the third full moon in a season containing four, or to a moon that appears blue due to atmospheric effects. [ 1] The calendrical meaning of "blue moon" is unconnected to the other meanings. It is often referred to as “traditional”, [ 2][ 3 ...
The "harvest moon" (also known as the "barley moon" or "full corn moon") is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date. [ 17] The "hunter's moon" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century. [ 18]
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 ...
Date of Easter. A calendar of the dates of Easter, for the 95 years 532–626, marble, in the Museum of Ravenna Cathedral, Italy. Five 19-year cycles are represented as concentric circles. Dates are given using the system of the Roman calendar, as well as the day of the lunar month. As a moveable feast, [ 1][ 2] the date of Easter is determined ...
Despite using calendars that are apart by 13 days, Western Easter and Orthodox Easter occasionally fall on the same date, as happened in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017. For example, according to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, the first Paschal Full Moon after the Spring Equinox (March 21) fell on Monday, April 14, 2014.
We'Moon: Gaia Rhythms for Womyn is an astrological and lunar calendar datebook, featuring art and writing submitted by, for and about women. [1] ". Wemoon" means "women," "we of the Moon" (for other alternative political spellings, see Womyn ). The datebook was founded in 1981 and is published annually in Oregon, USA, by Mother Tongue Ink (d.b ...
A juxtaposition of the apparent diameters of a more-average full moon on December 20, 2010 (left), and of the supermoon of March 19, 2011 (right) as viewed from Earth. A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee —the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit —resulting in a slightly ...