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The original Farmer's Almanac founded in 1792, Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather forecasts, tide tables, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles on a number of topics, including gardening, sports, astronomy, and farming.

The Almanac also features anecdotes and a section that predicts trends in fashion, food, home décor, technology, and living for the coming year.

Farmers' Almanac is an annual North American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818.

Published by Geiger of Lewiston, Maine, it is famous for its long-range weather predictions and astronomical data, along with a blend of humor, trivia, and advice on gardening, cooking, fishing, and human interest.

Conservation, sustainable living, and simple living are core values of the publication and its editors, and these themes are heavily promoted in every edition.

The lunar phase or phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer on Earth.

The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing positions of the Moon and Sun relative to the Earth.

The Moon's rotation is tidally locked by the Earth's gravity, therefore the same lunar surface always faces Earth.

This face is variously sunlit depending on the position of the Moon in its orbit.

Therefore, the portion of this hemisphere that is visible to an observer on Earth can vary from about 100% (full moon) to 0% (new moon).

The lunar terminator is the boundary between the illuminated and darkened hemispheres.

Each of the four "intermediate" lunar phases (see below) is roughly seven days (~7.4 days) but this varies slightly due to the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit.

Aside from some craters near the lunar poles such as Shoemaker, all parts of the Moon see around 14.77 days of sunlight, followed by 14.77 days of "night".

(The side of the Moon facing away from the Earth is sometimes called the "dark side of the Moon", although that is a misnomer).

Astronomy (from Greek: αστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

It applies mathematics, physics, and chemistry, in an effort to explain the origin of those objects and phenomena and their evolution.

Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and comets; while the phenomena include supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation.

More generally, all astronomical phenomena that originate outside Earth's atmosphere are within the purview of astronomy.

A related but distinct subject, physical cosmology, is concerned with the study of the Universe as a whole.

Sunrise or sun up is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears over the horizon in the morning.

The term can also refer to the entire process of the Sun crossing the horizon and its accompanying atmospheric effects.