More and more often, modern people turn to the knowledge of the ancients about the lunar cycles. No wonder! Even modern science recognizes the fact of the influence of the energy of the moon on the water element of our planet, on the behavior of plants and animals, as well as on human blood and lymph. If you think that only gardeners, astrologers and occultists use the lunar calendar, then you are wrong. All world religions are tied to it, and the Arab world lives according to this calendar. However, it is not so easy to calculate the lunar day.
It is necessary
- - the Internet;
- - tear-off calendar or gardener's calendar;
- - ephemeris;
- - calculator, paper, pen.
Instructions
Step 1
The easiest way to find out the lunar day is to buy a tear-off calendar that is printed in your area and has an indication of the phases of the moon and its rising. For gardeners and gardeners, special calendars are sold, which indicate the lunar day, as well as agricultural work that is most favorable for plants on these days.
Step 2
In addition, the lunar day can be found using the Internet. There are a lot of resources on the network that provide services for calculating the lunar day for a specific day. You just need to enter the date in a special field, and the program will give you the result you are interested in. Finding such resources is easy using any search engine. Just enter the query: "how to find out the lunar day." You will immediately receive a huge number of useful links.
Step 3
There are various methods of manual calculation that allow you to find out the lunar day. Such calendars and tables are used in Arab countries, as well as astronomers around the world. The moon moves in an unstable orbit, so the number of days in the lunar year differs from year to year. Not all lunar days have the same number of hours (for example, sometimes the 1st or last day of the lunar month lasts only 1 hour), so astronomers make special tables designed to calculate new moons for a certain period of time. Some of them cover the period from the 3rd millennium BC. to the 3rd millennium AD. With such a table, you can easily calculate the day of the new moon. Since the lunar month is the period from one new moon to another, then by calculating the day of the new moon for the desired month, you can find out which days of the lunar month correspond to the desired date. To calculate, you will need three coefficients, which are taken from the table located at https://astropolis.lv/ru/articles/about-astrology/345/Lunnyye_kalyendari. This table is intended for calculating new moons for one thousand years, covering the period from 1800 to 2799 inclusive. Let's calculate the new moon for May 2012
• From the first two columns, you need to take the value of the coefficient ten of the year (ie 20), which will be 11, 2.
• Then, from the middle of the table, you need to take the coefficient that corresponds to the tens of the year (horizontal lines) and the units of the year (columns in the middle of the table), that is, 1 and 2. It is located at the intersection of row (2) and column (1). In this case, it is 17, 1.
• The third coefficient is determined by the data of the last two columns, which indicate the desired month, in this case May, ie. 22, 1.
• Further, all three coefficients are added: 11, 2 + 17, 1 + 22, 1 = 50, 4.
• Since this number exceeds the number of lunar days in a month, you need to subtract 29.5 from it as many times as necessary to get a number not exceeding 29.5.
• It turns out: 50, 4-29, 5 = 20, 9. This means that in May 2012 the new moon will fall on the 20th day of the month.
• If you need to know the lunar day, say, for May 25, then the lunar day is counted from May 20. That is, May 25 will be 6 lunar days. In this case, the error can be 1 day, since for an accurate calculation you need to know the time of the first moonrise after a given new moon. The second lunar day is counted from the time of the first moonrise after the onset of the new moon.
Step 4
You can find out the lunar day by purchasing a special astronomical reference book, which is used by astrologers and astronomers. Such a guide is called "Ephemeris" and is compiled for a certain period of time. These tables show the coordinates of the planets in the starry sky. At the top of each page of the handbook are large tables that include the coordinates of the planets for two months. At the bottom of the page there is a sign divided into 6 sections. It is in it, in its fifth section, which bears the name "Phases & Eclipses", that the phases of the moon and the time of its rising (according to Greenwich Mean Time) are indicated.
