Astronomical School’s Report, 2012, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 104–107

https://doi.org/10.18372/2411-6602.08.1104
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UDC 523.3:529

Various aspects of moon-solar cycle and their application for an calculation of age of the Moon

Mikhalchuk V.V.

Astronomical Observatory, Odessa National University, Ukraine

Abstract

Shortages known from an antiquity 19-years Meton cycle are given. This cycle has three aspects, each of which ensures a various precision of a calculation of lunar number. The secular correction is obtained, permitting to increase the precision of a calculation of age of Moon on a large time interval, and the universal formula for a calculation of lunar number in various aspects of 19-years moon-solar cycle.

Keywords: phases of the Moon; Meton cycle

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