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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]
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.
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 .
A total solar eclipse will be passing over a swath of the United States in 2024 and parts of Indiana will have lucky cities with front-row seats.
April 8, 2024 at 6:43 AM Nasa has released a new map showing the path along the US – stretching from Texas to Maine – from where the total solar eclipse will be visible on 8 April 2024.
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).
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service has combined a map created from NASA's 2024 total solar eclipse data with climatology information showing, on average, how ...