Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]uh oh! Someone used the "O" word again! cheers Jack McLain Tucson, AZ http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Low" <joelct@singnet.com.sg> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Happy New Year ! > Bravo Doug - for a non Oriental - your figuring on our Lunar Year is > impressive - thank you for sharing your understanding with us > > Joseph Low > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Douglas Herr > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:35 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Happy New Year ! > > > > * Here are the rules: > > 1. All calculations and observations are based on the meridian 120 degree > > East (115 degree East for Vietnam) > > 2. The day starts at midnight (it used to start at the beginning of the > > first hour, the hour of the rat, which starts at 11:00pm) > > 3. The day on which occur the new moon is the first day of the month > > 4. The winter solstice (dong zhi jie qi) must fall in the 11th month of > the > > year > > 5. If there are 13 lunar months between 2 winter solstices, one of them > must > > necessarily not have a zhongqi**; that month is the leap month in the > > corresponding year (hence a leap year has 13 lunar months). > > > > ** The solar year is divided into 24 jieqi, each corresponding to > positions > > of the Earth along its orbit, each 15 degree apart. The length of each > > jieqi varies from 14 to 16 days, varying with the speed of Earth along its > orbit. > > Every other jieqi is a zhongqi; the winter solstice is a zhongqi. > > And I thought figuring out when Friday is for FS/WTB posts was difficult. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html