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English: This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2024, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. Each frame represents one hour.
The synodic month (Greek: συνοδικός, romanized: synodikós, meaning "pertaining to a synod, i.e., a meeting"; in this case, of the Sun and the Moon), also lunation, is the average period of the Moon's orbit with respect to the line joining the Sun and Earth: 29 (Earth) days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.9 seconds. [5]
The Lunation Number or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a specific one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines "lunation 1" as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.
Since each lunation is approximately 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, [1] it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year , is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds (354.36707 days), [ 1 ] purely lunar calendars are 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year .
The previous major lunar standstill was in 2006 and the most recent in December 2024. Location of the northern lunistices from 2006 to 2025 At this time the northern lunistice occurs when the Moon is seen in the direction of Taurus , northern Orion , Gemini , or sometimes the southernmost part of Auriga (as at the time of a major lunistice).
Since each lunation is approximately 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, [1] it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds (354.36707 days), [1] purely lunar calendars are 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year.
The clip is labeled, “This year I let go of…” and is followed by eight things she's left behind in 2024. The first thing is “the phase of life where everyone is always under one roof," and ...
Occurring only about 7 hours before perigee (on September 18, 2024, at 9:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. This eclipse also occurred during a supermoon. [2] This eclipse was the final partial lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 118.