New moon western horizon shortly after sunset and before moonset. A lunation or synodic month is the average time from one new moon to the next. In the J2000.0 epoch, the average length of a lunation is 29.530588 days (or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.8 seconds). However, the length of any one synodic month can vary from 29.26 to 29.80 days due to the perturbing effects of the Sun's gravity on the Moon's eccentric orbit. In a lunar calendar, each month corresponds to a lunation. Each lunar cycle can be assigned a unique lunation number to identify it. The
How to Grow a Band July 2011, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in October 2011, the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival and the CBGB Film Festival in New York. "How to Grow a Band" opened theatrically in New York April 12, 2012 and screened in cities the US throughout 2012. The film was released digitally by Cinedigm in April 2013 on iTunes, Netflix, Hulu and other platforms in the US and UK. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film was released in 2014 on DVD and Blu-Ray in a 2-disc deluxe edition that includes the 90 minute film plus a second disc featuring 3 hours of previously