| One could quite quickly determine the length of the synodic month by counting the days between full moons. |
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| Whereas the synodic period is 29.53 days, it takes 27.5 days for the moon to move in its elliptical orbit from perigee to perigee. |
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| It is interesting to note that Venus is also closely synchronized to this 8 year period, completing five synodic periods of 584 days. |
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| Jupiter's synodic period brings it into conjunction with the sun every 398 days and 88 minutes. |
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| The Mayan astronomers calculated its synodic period as 584 days. |
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| The rate of change in the synodic month was minimal for most of the Cretaceous but has accelerated since. |
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| In fact, its 399-day synodic year places it in a different constellation of the Zodiac at the same point in each succeeding year. |
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| The next Northern Maximum declinational tide July 2nd will be in phase with the inductive effects of the synodic conjunction of Jupiter peaking on July 9th. |
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| The synodic conjunction of Earth with Jupiter was on the 9th of July 2008, centered in the July 6th through 12th hurricane window in my forecast above. |
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| The synodic month grew to be the basis of the calendar month. |
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| Two consecutive saros series are separated by the inex, a period of 29 years minus 20 days that is, 358 synodic months after which time the new moon has come from one node to the opposite node. |
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| The tropical year and the synodic month are incommensurable, 12 synodic months amounting to 354.36706 days, almost 11 days shorter than the tropical year. |
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| Taking a synodic month to be 29.5 days, they then computed the difference between 12 of these lunations and their tropical year, which amounted to 11 days. |
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| Metonic cycle, in chronology, a period of 19 years in which there are 235 lunations, or synodic months, after which the Moon's phases recur on the same days of the solar year, or year of the seasons. |
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| Then, from a sufficient number of observations of synodic periods to give their mean, we obtain the sidereal period, or period with reference to the stars. |
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