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Lunar month - Wikipedia
There are several types of lunar month. The term lunar month usually refers to the synodic month because it is the cycle of the visible phases of the Moon. Most of the following types of lunar month, except the distinction between the sidereal and tropical months, were first recognized in Babylonian lunar astronomy.
LUNATION Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of LUNATION is the period of time averaging 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.8 seconds elapsing between two successive new moons.
What is a Lunar Month? - timeanddate.com
What Is a Lunation Number? A lunation number is a number given to each lunar month and is usually found in Moon phase calendars and in almanacs. The most commonly used lunation number is the Brown lunation number system, invented by Professor Ernest W. Brown in 1933.
LUNATION Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
LUNATION definition: the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month. See examples of lunation used in a sentence.
Phases of the Moon - timeanddate.com
A Moon cycle, or a lunation, is the time the Moon travels through its lunar phases.
Lunation and lunation number – Royal Observatory of Belgium ... - oma
Lunation and lunation number A lunation, or lunar month, is the time it takes the Moon to pass through all of the Moon phases, measured from one new moon to the next New Moon. The astronomical term for a lunation is a synodic month, from the Greek term synodos, meaning meeting or conjunction.
New moon - Wikipedia
A lunation, or synodic month, is the period from one new moon to the next. At the J2000.0 epoch, the average length of a lunation is 29.53059 days (or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds). [6]
LUNATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
LUNATION definition: 1. the period of time (about 29.5 days) that it takes the moon to go around the Earth: 2. the…. Learn more.
lunation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
lunation (plural lunations) A month of an average of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.
Lunation -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy - Wolfram
The lunation number is defined such that lunation n = 1 corresponds to the first new moon that occurred in 1923. The date on which lunation n occurs can be computed using Lunation [n +284] in the Mathematica application package Scientific Astronomer, which returns results accurate to within about three minutes.
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