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ECLIPSES-FESTIVAL DAYS.

A Lunar sidereal month is..

+

""

synodic

21

>>

tropical

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MONTHS.

Days. Hrs.

Min.

Sec.

27

7

43

11.5

29 12

44

2.87

·

27 7

43 4.7

*

27 13

18 37.4

D

27

5

5 36'

D

00

50 8 47.9

0.0548442

60.67

anomalistic nodal

"

"

Moon's inclination to the Ecliptic.

27

11

Excentricity

Distance from the earth in radii.

The anomalistic

year

is.

A sidereal year is...

A common, or tropical year, is

A lunar year is

YEARS.

Days. Hrs.

Min.

Sec.

.365

6

13

49.3

..365

6

9

13.7

..365

5

48

49.7

364

8

48

34.44

ECLIPSES IN 1886.

In the year 1886 there will be two Eclipses, both of the Sun. I.-March 5th.-An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, invisible from England. The Central Eclipse begins in long. 140 deg. min. E. of Greenwich, and lat. 11 deg. min. S., at 9m, after 8h. p.m., Greenwich Mean Time, and ends in long. 90 deg. 7 min. W. of Greenwich, and lat. 22 deg. min. N., at 2m. after midnight.

II.-August 29th.-A Total Eclipse of the Sun, invisible from England. The Central Eclipse begins at 14m. after 11h. a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, in long. 79 deg. § min. W. of Greenwich, and lat. 9 deg. min. N.; it ends at 38m. after 2h. p.m., in long. 47 deg. E. of Greenwich, and lat. 22 deg. S.

RULES FOR ASCERTAINING DATES OF MOVEABLE FEASTS.

Easter day is the first Sunday after the first Eclesiastical full moon following the 21st March, or if the moon happens on a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday following. Advent Sunday is the nearest Sunday to St. Andrew's Day, whether before or after. Rogation Sunday is Five weeks after Easter Day. Ascension Day is Forty days after. Whit Sunday is Seven weeks after. Trinity Sunday is Eight weeks after.

.Jan.

·

Mar. 10

.Mar. 14

Mar. 17

.Mar. 25

April 18

FIXED AND MOVEABLE FESTIVALS, ANNIVERSARIES,

Epiphany

Septuagesima Sunday St. David

Quinquagesima—-Shrove Sunday...Mar. 7

Ash Wednesday 1st Sun. in Lent

St. Patrick

Lady Day.

·

Palm Sunday

Accession of Queen Victoria. Proclamation

+

..June 21

ETC., ETC.

6 | Rogation Sunday

. May 30

. Feb. 21 Ascension Day; Holy Thursday..June 3

Mar. 1 Pentecost-Whit Sunday

.June 13

Trinity Sunday..

.June 20

·

.June 20

Corpus Christi

June 24

St. John Bapt.--Midsum. Day

-Midsum. Day

..June 24

St. Michael Michaelmas Day

.Sept. 29

Good Friday

St. George

.April 23

Birth of Prince of Wales...

Nov. 9

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·

.April 23

1st Sunday in Advent

·

Nov. 28

Easter Sunday

Low Sunday

Birth of Queen Victoria

April 25 | St. Andrew

Nov. 30

.May 2 St. Thomast

·

..May 24 Christmas Day

.Dec. 21

..Dec. 25

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