Talk:Lunar conjunction

Lunar conjunction is the time between .... This is not exact: the lunar conjunction is the start of the new moon. The Hebrew calendar and Islamic calendar months are based on the time between identical phases of the Moon ... But this is just the synodical month. -- looxix 00:18 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)

Here is the previous text: Lunar conjunction is the time between identical phases of the Moon ("Mofa'im" in Hebrew). This time is defined as one month in the Hebrew calendar, in contrast to a month in the Gregorian/Julian calendar, which is simply a year (1 revolution of Earth around the Sun) divided into 12 parts.

Molad
I removed "(known in that context as the molad in Hebrew)" since it is wrong. A molad is the moment that begins a mean synodic month, not a unit of period of time. It is something like an average lunar conjunction that can be up to 13 hours away from the actual lunar conjunction. I didn't try to expand on it here since Hebrew calendar gives the details better. McKay (talk) 05:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

merge proposal
Lunar conjunction is not a common term which appears most often in religious and astrological contexts. This article's claim that it is "sometimes" called new moon is inaccurate.

The position of the Sun, Moon and Earth during the new phase is already well covered in new moon, this article should be redirected there. I'm not seeing anything in this unreferenced article to be merged.

--MadeYourReadThis (talk) 13:01, 29 July 2019 (UTC)