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

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