Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

It was a delayed moon, but now the sky had cleared of scudding black and the stars sugared the silver-gray sky.

There had been an eclipse of the moon.

The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

He also said that the moon had mountains and believed that it was inhabited.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

The comet had apparently passed extremely close to Jupiter on July 7, 1992, just over above the planet's cloud topsa smaller distance than Jupiter's radius of, and well within the orbit of Jupiter's innermost moon Metis and the planet's Roche limit, inside which tidal forces are strong enough to disrupt a body held together only by gravity.

Some astronomers had suggested that the impacts might have a noticeable effect on the Io torus, a torus of high-energy particles connecting Jupiter with the highly volcanic moon Io.

One year usually had 12 months, which were alternately 29 and 30 days long ( with an additional day added from time to time, to catch up with " drifts " between the calendar and the actual moon cycle ), and intercalary months were added in an arbitrary fashion at the end of the year.

It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.

Although WMAP provided very accurate measurements of the great angular-scale fluctuations in the CMB ( structures about as broad in the sky as the moon ), it did not have the angular resolution to measure the smaller scale fluctuations which had been observed by former ground-based interferometers.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

Although originally the new lunar crescent had to be observed and certified by witnesses, the moment of the new moon is now approximated arithmetically.

The calendar at the time was regulated by the movement of the moon, and this had resulted in a great deal of disorder.

As the story goes, after the Ranger program had experienced failure after failure during the 1960s, the first successful Ranger mission to impact the moon occurred while a JPL staff member was eating peanuts.

After I had made experiments many nights, one night, the twenty-third of August 1499, there was a conjunction of the moon with Mars, which according to the almanac was to occur at midnight or a half hour before.

But this method had several limitations: First, it required the occurrence of a specific astronomical event ( in this case, Mars passing through the same right ascension as the moon ), and the observer needed to anticipate this event via an astronomical almanac.

In a 1999 Journal of Affective Disorders article, a hypothesis was suggested that the phase of the moon may in the past have had an effect on individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light during nights which would otherwise have been dark, and affecting susceptible individuals through the well-known route of sleep deprivation.

Lunar eclipses do not occur every month because the moon usually passes above or below the Earth's shadow ( which is mostly restricted to the ecliptic plane ).

For any given location, about half of these absolute maximum full moons will be potentially visible, as the other half occur during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon.

The large set of waves just below center is due to the 6: 5 resonance with Janus ( moon ) | Janus.

Ludwig II of Bavaria portrayed as Lohengrin below a moon with Wagner's face.

Experience has shown the greatest chance of exposure occurs near the gravitational field of a moon or planet, so these were first employed on the Apollo lunar EVA suits ( see American suit models below ).

Unusual forms of life could be found in the lake's liquid layer, an ecosystem sealed off below the ice for millions of years, conditions which could resemble those of the hypothesized ice-covered ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus may also harbor lakes or oceans below a thick crust of ice.

Note that in the case of an astronomical crescent, such as the moon observed in the sky, the outer arc will be 180 ° ( a half-circle as previously mentioned ), while the Islamic crescent symbol ( Arabic هلال hilāl ) is often shown with an outer arc significantly greater than 180 ° ( as seen in the illustrations below ).

In the box T are two wheels ( as in Dr Long's sphere ) and two pinions, whose axes come out at V and U ; either of which may be turned by the small winch W. When the winch is put upon the axis V, and turn backward, the terrestrial globe, with its horizon and celestial meridian, keep at rest ; and the whole sphere of circles turns round from east, by south, to west, carrying the sun Y, and moon Z, round the same way, and causing them to rise above and set below the horizon.

gets 9. 0 to 9. 5 degrees below the horizon ( at summer solstice this is at latitudes 57 ° 30 ′– 57 ° 00 ′), zenith gets dark even on cloud-free nights ( if there is no full moon ); more than just the brightest shining stars are clearly visible in a large majority of the sky.

Meanwhile the body of the moon which was below writhed, as it were, in anxiety, and, to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the moon throbbed like a wounded snake.

It has been hypothesized that chemosynthesis may support life below the surface of Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, and other planets.

It contains a circular moon region, within which is a downward pointing triangle containing a jewelled altar with the crescent moon below and circular bindu above.

* Dag ( lunar crater ), a minor crater on the moon ( named after the Scandinavian first name, see below )

The sentence displayed below in many variants reads, "' Shine, old moon, shine!

Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light in the sky that moved from below the moon and the planet Jupiter, upward to the west of the moon.

However, this is impossible as only a lunar eclipse can occur at Passover, and lunar eclipses are not visible at mid day ( the 6th hour as reported in the gospels ) due to the moon being directly opposite the sun, and therefore below the horizon.

Lunar eclipses are not always visible as the moon may be below the horizon as it moves across the sky, but over 18 to 19 years ( 18. 61 years to be precise — error: it is 18. 03 ) the date and position of a visible eclipse will return to its beginning point on the horizon again.

While beginning the game as Sabreman, the player is periodically transformed into a werewulf as day turns into night ( see the sun / moon dial in the bottom right of the screenshots below ).

The dielectric constant of the lunar subsurface in the scattering region below a depth of about 25 cm was then determined from a profile of reflectivity values vs the angle of incidence on the moon.