Each month lasts for a full
lunation, which is the time span from one mew moon to the next.
Mission plans facilitated long-term planning for early phases of the mission and for each month-long
lunation of the science phase.
I have been unable to find any information about this Somniale text specifically, but DiTommaso has generously provided me with a reference to a Latin
lunation in a manuscript in the Conrady collection.
25 PER MIN PISCES FEBRUARY 20 – MARCH 20 Full Moon turns tides, changing weather patterns and Tuesday's lovely
lunation marks a shift around family matters and domestic affairs.
37) He showed by analysis of the intensity estimates by himself and five other members of the Circle that these patches--although curious in appearance to the observer--varied systematically in brightness during each
lunation.
Science and the
Lunation Cycle", Matrix Journal, 1990
Criteria such as these, when calculated on the globe for each
lunation, generate lunar date line curves that divide the globe into positive prediction and negative prediction zones.
In African star lore
lunation was used as a celestial analogy for the cycle of life in that the moon is seen to be born, to grow, to decay and die as it passes through its waxing and waning phases.
For instance, a longer than normal
lunation tends to occur between October and March because of the faster movement by the Earth in its orbit round the sun.
The first of these is the biggest part of New Atlas of the Moon and consists of a series of two-page spreads that show lunar phases for nearly a full
lunation, from day 3 to day 27.
9:35:40 on a Wednesday), but the first new moon did not occur until the moon and the sun had been created six
lunation periods later on Molad Tishri of Jewish calendar year 2 at exactly 8:00:00 am on Friday (i.
Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient
lunation, approaching perigee of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth .
