Full moon another full supermoon occurred, closer to the Earth than at any time for the previous 18 years. On 14 November 2016, a full supermoon occurred closer to the Earth than at any time for the previous 68 years. The date and approximate time of a specific full moon (assuming a circular orbit) can be calculated from the following equation: where "d" is the number of days since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 in the Terrestrial Time scale used in astronomical ephemerides; for Universal Time (UT) add the following approximate correction to "d": where "N" is the number of full moons since
The Reckoning of Time hour. The smallest increment of time is the atom. Here, Bede gives an exhaustive overview of the date of the Earth's creation, the months, the weeks and the Moon. He argues that the first day did not, as it was generally believed, take place at the time of an equinox. According to the religious accounts of God's creation of the universe, light was created on the first day. It wasn't until the fourth day, however, that God created the stars and therefore there was no measurement of hours. Much of this section is devoted to the Moon. Bede goes into