Moons Sentence Examples

It was dark, the dual moons high in the sky.

The Solar Equation Occurs Three Times In 400 Years, Namely, In Every Secular Year Which Is Not A Leap Year; For In This Case The Omission Of The Intercalary Day Causes The New Moons To Arrive One Day Later In All The Following Months, So That The Moon'S Age At The End Of The Month Is One Day Less Than It Would Have Been If The Intercalation Had Been Made, And The Epacts Must Accordingly Be All Diminished By Unity.

Do they have anything unusual, like four moons?

It was still dark, and the moons of the underworld hadn't moved far across the sky.  He sat, uneasy with the dream exchange with Death.  A small fire burned between him and Katie, whose pale features and shadowed eyes were showing the effects of both her pregnancy and the toll the underworld took on mortals.

It is not, however, precisely known how they distributed their months of thirty and twenty-nine days, or, as they termed them, great and small moons.

Thus the first moon of the year 1873 being the first of a new cycle, the first moon of every sixth year, reckoned backwards or forwards from that date, as 1868, 1863, &c., or 1877, 1882, &c., also begins a new lunar cycle of sixty moons.

Thus The Epacts I 1, 22, 3, 14, &C., Become 10, 21, 2, 13, &C. On The Other Hand, When The Time By Which The New Moons Anticipate The Lunar Cycle Amounts To A Whole Day, Which, As We Have Seen, It Does In 308 Years, The New Moons Will Arrive One Day Earlier, And The Epacts Must Consequently Be Increased By Unity.

When The Epact Of The Year Is Known, The Days On Which The New Moons Occur Throughout The Whole Year Are Shown By Table Iv., Which Is Called The Gregorian Calendar Of Epacts.

The Reason For Doubling The 25 Was To Prevent The New Moons From Being Indicated In The Calendar As Happening Twice .On The Same Day In The Course Of The Lunar Cycle, A Thing Which Actually Cannot Take Place.

The Use Of The Epacts Is To Show The Days Of The New Moons, And Consequently The Moon'S Age On Any Day Of The Year.

The new moons indicated by the epacts also differ from the astronomical new moons, and even from the mean new moons, in general by one or two days.

The Epacts Are Also Placed So As To Indicate The Full Moons Generally One Or Two Days After The True Full Moons; But This Was Done Purposely, To Avoid The Chance Of Concurring With The Jewish Passover, Which The Framers Of The Calendar Seem To Have Considered A Greater Evil Than That Of Celebrating Easter A Week Too Late.

With Respect To The Movable Feasts, Easter Is Determined By The Rule Laid Down By The Council Of Nice; But Instead Of Employing The New Moons And Epacts, The Golden Numbers Are Prefixed To The Days Of The Full Moons.

The Calendar Of The Church Of England Is Therefore From Century To Century The Same In Form As The Old Roman Calendar, Excepting That The Golden Numbers Indicate The Full Moons Instead Of The New Moons.

The Times Of All Future New Moons May Consequently Be Deduced By Successively Adding 29 Days 12 Hours 44 Min.

To Compute The Times Of The New Moons Which Determine The Commencement Of Successive Years, It Must Be Observed That In Passing From An Ordinary Year The New Moon Of The Following Year Is Deduced By Subtracting The Interval That Twelve Lunations Fall Short Of The Corresponding Gregorian Year Of 365 Or 366 Days; And That, In Passing From An Embolismic Year, It Is To Be Found By Adding The Excess Of Thirteen Lunations Over The Gregorian Year.

After a reference to their descent from Abraham and their sojourn in Egypt, Aristides praises them for their worship of the one God, the Almighty Creator; but blames them as worshipping angels, and observing "sabbaths and new moons, and the unleavened bread, and the great fast, and circumcision, and cleanness of meats."

Corroboration has been sought by Mahler, Sethe and Petrie in the dates of new moons, of warlike and other expeditions, and of high Nile, but their evidence so far is too vague and uncertain to affect the question seriously.

With the same instrument, he further detected, on the 19th of September 1848, Hyperion, the seventh of Saturn's attendants, and, on the 24th of October 1851, Ariel and Umbriel, the interior moons of Uranus.

Disappointed her friend was leaving for somewhere across the world, she'd bought them matching necklaces featuring whimsical half moons in rose gold with a single, small, sparkling diamond of a star embedded in the moon.

The tiled floor depicted Anshan and its moons, with the planet at the chamber's center.

He was beautiful in the moonlight, with the gentle light of the moons clashing with his ferocious warrior body.

The water looked … black in the moonlight.  She took a step back and looked up towards the moons.  As Gabriel indicated, one moon was lower than the other.

The moons appeared through the branches in the jungle, almost alone in the dark sky except for a wisp of clouds floating beneath them.  She watched the clouds pass.  More came, quickly blocking the moons and stealing most of the light from the jungle.  Katie sat up and blinked until her eyes adjusted to the new level of darkness.  The sky took on an eerie silver glow, like it did in Maryland the night before a hard snow.

The surface is covered with a darker material causing Hyperion to have a lower albedo compared to other icy moons.

Even at the distances from the Sun involved, a small brown dwarf among the comets could provide a habitable environment on its moons.

Sitchin seems to reject my notion of a sub-brown dwarf and warmed moons, which is a pity.

Many of the outer moons are probably asteroids captured by the giant planet's gravity.

The Galilean moons of Jupiter are invisible to the naked eye, so at least 8 of Nibiru's satellites are bigger than them.

Cassini-Huygens is the first ever mission to explore Saturn and its icy moons in such detail.

But such a bombardment from outside the solar system should have catastrophically affected the Jovian moons.

The telescope was completed on 28th August 1789 and on that first night, Herschel discovered two new moons of Saturn.

The research implies the moons are very porous - similar to moons orbiting just outside Saturn's rings.

One could only conclude that Jack would not be taking any more shore leave for many moons.

These were laid out to create shapes such as a hissing snake, mosques, stars and crescent moons.

Here are the planets and some of their moons, all visible with a good telescope, some visible with a good telescope, some visible with the naked eye.

The frequent Old Testament association of "new moons and Sabbaths" may point to an original observance of the 1st and 15th days of the month.

Each night, the slugs crawled out of the moons and stars and slithered off on their fungal foray.

Suppose we found out that facts about the distribution of gases on the moons of Jupiter supervened directly on facts about our minds.

The mining ship ' Red Dwarf ' is an old tramp steamer, working around the moons of Saturn.

Here are the planets and some of their moons, all visible with a good telescope, some visible with the naked eye.

The zodiac worked as a symbolic calendar divided into twelve parts, like the of 12 moons waxing and waning in a year.

The Stars and Moons Baby Bedding Set from Beyond Bedding include a crib sheet, crib skirt, bumper, quilt, and several other pieces.

They are repositionable and reusable and come in patterns such as suns, moons, sunflowers, rainbows and abstract designs.

You can find many different centerpieces with stars or moons and some come lighted with batteries.

You can find many stages with stars and moons.

For added visual appeal, look into some free standing moons or stars that you can place around the room.

The triple moon goddess symbol is comprised of two crescent moons and a full moon to represent the three aspects of the goddess through the waxing and waning of the moon.

Unique shapes for accent diamonds, including bullets, half moons, and baguettes.

Her signature style is the use of moons, stars, suns and hearts; designs which not only appear on her bookbags, but also on her other fashion creations, namely, furniture, carpets, lamps, towels, and bed linens.

Looking closely at the symbol, it actually appears to be two full moons attached to a crescent moon.

These sun signs naturally complement each other, and Virgo and Capricorn's moons also support this union.

Capricorn and Virgo's moons are located within a trine, and this, as well as their shared earth element, only serves to strengthen any relationship between the two.

New moons provide two weeks of fresh energy, energy that can help nourish your goals.

Autumn leaves, cool breezes, and full moons bring back memories of past Halloweens when you were a child.

As a true shape shifter, Sam is not limited to changing at full moons or by the animal he can change into.

Full moons and crescent moons mixed with fairies work the best with celestial design ideas.

Some other alternatives for adding color or style include flowers, hearts and suns or moons.

Full moons and crescent moons work the best with this design idea.

A few tattoo ideas involving moons and stars include the following designs.

Decorate the hallways and classrooms by hanging moons and stars from the ceiling.

Traditionally, the reverse French manicure is red and white, but feel free to mix-it up and use your own color combinations like black nails with gold half moons or brown nails with pink half-moons.

In the underworld where she spent almost her entire life, there were two suns and two moons.

There were two moons in this realm, one full and the other a sliver.

The twin moons of the outer banks of Hell were bright.

It was always dark here, and the moons rose and set each day.

The dual moons seemed to hover somewhere in the middle of the air of a massive chasm, just like the dozen or so hulking spaceships, whose dark grey skins reflected like skins of massive grey whales in the moonlight.

Two moons rose, and the four warriors around her kept to a path only they understood.

Mansr strode down one of the many paths lining the rocky hills, away from the encampment and into a part of the hills untouched by any but the moons' light.

The moons hung well above the horizon, and the desert air was chilly enough for her to see her breath.

She gazed at him in the moons' light, tears building again.

It was dark.  The dual moons of the underworld were high overhead, another sign she hadn't slept more than an hour or two.  The trees overhead hissed as the branches moved like snakes in a soft breeze.  Gabriel held out a hand and pulled her up, silent despite his size and small armory of weapons.

The water looked … black in the moonlight.  She took a step back and looked up towards the moons.  As Gabriel indicated, one moon was lower than the other.

From this time forward the new moons, which till then had been at least as important as the Sabbath and were celebrated by sacrificial feasts as occasions of religious gladness, fall into insignificance, except in the conservative temple ritual.

For chronological purposes, the Chinese, in common with some other nations of the east of Asia, employ cycles of sixty, by means of which they reckon their days, moons and years.

The moons of the civil year are also distinguished by their place in the cycle of sixty; and as the intercalary moons are not reckoned, for the reason before stated, namely, that during one of these lunations the sun enters into no new sign, there are only twelve regular moons in a year, so that the cycle is renewed every five years.

The twelvefold division of the zodiac was evidently suggested by the occurrence of twelve full moons in successive parts of it in the course of each year.

The synodical revolution of the moon laid down the lines of the solar, its sidereal revolution those of the lunar zodiac. The first was a circlet of " full moons "; the second marked the diurnal stages of the lunar progress round the sky, from and back again to any selected star.

Alternative moons are given for A.D.

The Metonic Cycle, Which May Be Regarded As The Chef D'Oeuvre Of Ancient Astronomy, Is A Period Of Nineteen Solar Years, After Which The New Moons Again Happen On The Same Days Of The Year.

It ought to be remarked that the new moons, determined in this manner, may differ from the astronomical new moons sometimes as much as two days.

The cycle of the sun brings back the days of the month to the same day of the week; the lunar cycle restores the new moons to the same day of the month; therefore 28 X 19 = 53 2 years, includes all the variations in respect of the new moons and the dominical letters, and is consequently a period after which the new moons again occur on the same day of the month and the same day of the week.

By means of the lunar cycle the new moons of the calendar were indicated before the Reformation.

It Could Not Therefore Long Continue To Preserve Its Correspondence With The Seasons, Or To Indicate The Days Of The New Moons With The Same Accuracy.

The Difference, Which Is I Hour 29 Minutes, Amounts To A Day In 308 Years, So That At The End Of This Time The New Moons Occur One Day Earlier Than They Are Indicated By The Golden Numbers.

During The 1257 Years That Elapsed Between The Council Of Nicaea And The Reformation, The Error Had Accumulated To Four Days, So That The New Moons Which Were Marked In The Calendar As Happening, For Example, On The 5Th Of The Month, Actually Fell On The 1St.

In That Year The Omission Of The Intercalary Day Rendered It Necessary To Diminish The Epacts By Unity, Or To Pass To The Line C. In 1800 The Solar Equation Again Occurred, In Consequence Of Which It Was Necessary To Descend One Line To Have The Epacts Diminished By Unity; But In This Year The Lunar Equation Also Occurred, The Anticipation Of The New Moons Having Amounted To A Day; The New Moons Accordingly Happened A Day Earlier, Which Rendered It Necessary To Take The Epacts In The Next Higher Line.

This Epact Occurs At The 3Rd Of January, The 2Nd Of February, The 3Rd Of March, The Znd Of April, The 1St Of May, &C., And These Days Are Consequently The Days Of The Ecclesiastical New Moons In 1832.

For Example, If We Observe The Line B In Table Iii., We Shall See That It Contains Both The Epacts Twenty Four And Twenty Five, So That If These Correspond To The Same Day Of The Month, Two New Moons Would Be Indicated As Happening On That Day Within Nineteen Years.

Had The Anticipation Of The New Moons Been Taken, As It Ought To Have Been, At One Day In 308 Years Instead Of 3121, The Lunar Equation Would Have Occurred Only Twelve Times In 3700 Years, Or Eleven Times Successively At The End Of 300 Years, And Then At The End Of 400.