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Lunar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lunar, word derived from the Latin luna, meaning moon, may refer to:
adjective: having to do with or pertaining to the Moon, or to moons in general
Lunar calendar, a calendar divided into periods based on the phases of the Moon
lunar distance, the angle between the moon and another celestial object
Lunar Eclipse, Where the sun, earth and moon are aligned so that the moon passes through some portion of the earths shadow
Lunar Society, A discussion club that met regularly in Birmingham between 1765 and 1813
Bluemoon, a cantonese rock band from former name Lunar
Lunar Linux, a distribution of Linux
LunarStorm, a Swedish website
Lunar, an RPG series of console video games.
Lunar Exalted, one of the character types from the role-playing game Exalted
Lunar Knights, a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld system.
Lunar Rubbers, a manufacturer of Havai chappals, School Bags and rain gear and umbrella's in India.
Lunar calendar
A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the moon phase. The only widely used purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar, whose year always consists of 12 lunar months. A feature of a purely lunar year, on the Islamic calendar model, is that the calendar ceases to be linked to the seasons, and drifts each year by 11 or 12 days, and comes back to the position it had in relation to the solar year every 33 or 34 Islamic years. It is used predominantly for religious purposes. In Saudi Arabia it is also used for commercial purposes.
Most lunar calendars are in fact lunisolar calendars. That is, months are kept on a lunar cycle, but then intercalary months are added to bring the lunar cycles into synchronisation with the solar year.
Since there are about twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, this period (354.37 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year. |
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