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2. 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 ...

3. May 2023 lunar eclipse - Wikipedia

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   October 2023 →. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred on Friday, 5 May 2023, the first of two lunar eclipses in 2023. The moon's apparent diameter was 0.1% larger than average since it occurred 5.5 days before perigee (Perigee on 11 May 2023). This was the deepest penumbral eclipse (with –0.0457 magnitude) since February 2017 and until ...

4. Vesak - Wikipedia

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   The month of May usually has one full moon, but as there are 29.5 days between full moons, occasionally there are two. If there are two full moons during the month of May, some countries (including Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Malaysia) celebrate Vesak on the first full moon, while others (Thailand, Singapore) celebrate the holiday on the full moon ...

5. Ecclesiastical full moon - Wikipedia

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   An ecclesiastical full moon is formally the 14th day of the ecclesiastical lunar month (an ecclesiastical moon) in an ecclesiastical lunar calendar. 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 ...

6. The ‘Wolf’ is the first full moon of 2023, and it’s tonight ...

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   The first full moon of 2023 will rise Friday, Jan. 6, and it’s known as the Wolf Moon, as well as the Ice Moon, the Moon after Yule, the Old Moon and more. The celestial event will be a ...

7. 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.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival - Wikipedia

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   The Binara Full Moon Poya Day and Vap Full Moon Poya Day occur around the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival and like other Buddhist Asian countries, the festivals celebrate the ascendance and culmination of the Buddha's visit to heaven and for the latter, the acknowledgement of the cultivation season known as "Maha". [67] [68] [69]

9. List of future astronomical events - Wikipedia

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   The Revised Julian and Gregorian calendars will differ by a day. [164] ≈2750 4772 October 13 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, assuming a turnover value of 20 b'ak'tuns, will require a sixth order. 2,885 4909 The Gregorian calendar will be a full day ahead of the solar year. 3,985 6009 The first Strobogrammatic numbered year since 1961 ...