2003 CALENDAR -- MOON WEBSITE -- QUARTER DAYS: 15 October 2002
MC has just bought a copy of 'R J Harris's Moon Gardening' (see link at the foot of the page) and e-mails to ask for a moon-quarter calendar for 2003. This will be e-mailed to her and then posted in the site as soon Mr Harris has prepared his for use in the walled kitchen garden at Tresillian, Cornwall -- in October, probably. Meantime, for immediate aid, panel 93 in the manual (page 164) is worth a look. It comments on the splendid google website site (see link at the foot of the page), which tells all and more about the satellite planet, including the date of each day of each moon's life span in each year up to 2015. There is a very small difficulty in isolating within the presented tables the four key, quarter-commencement days in each moon's progress through the heavens. The profusion of displayed information confuses. With patience, however, four near-bull's-eye strikes can be achieved.
My own opinion is unchanged: the handiest, simplest and lowest-cost source of the current year's moon quarter-day dates is the current Letts pocket diary. This is despite the diary's (and other publications') confusing use of the terms 'new moon', 'full moon', 'first quarter' and 'second quarter'. 'R J Harris's Moon Gardening' takes a knife to this nonsense and identifies the moon's first, second, third and fourth quarters as such. It rejects 'new' and 'full' as unhelpful -- as is 'first' when the second quarter is being referred to, and 'second' when, in fact, it is the third quarter that is being pinpointed.
For an elaborate, decorative and comprehensive source of moon-phase knowledge nothing equals the products of The Moon Calendar Company (see link at the foot of the page). I have this company's splendid Lunarama 2003 on the wall behind my desk. It charts the moon's path at zenith when over London, 2 January 2003 to 21 January 2004.
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