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A calendar based on the motion of the sun around the celestial sphere.  A successful solar calendar is always synchronized with the seasons.  The calendar we use today is solar – January is always winter and July is always summer, etc.
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a calendar based on solar cycles
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a calendar consisting of years which accord with seasonal (or tropical) years
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a calendar whose date indicates the season for a given place on Earth
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a calendar whose dates indicate the season and so are synchronized to the declination
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Any calendar system based on the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Our current Gregorian Calendar is a solar calendar.
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A calendar that was designed to keep in sync with the sun, but not the moon's phases.
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A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the sun (or equivalently the apparent position of the sun moving on the celestial sphere).
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