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If asked, one should not say what the lunation is on a particular day.
2
And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter.
3
The next simplest period, the mooneth or month, is also thrust upon men's notice by the conspicuous changes constituting a lunation.
4
The calendar is constructed on the assumptions that the mean lunation is 29 days 12 hours 44 min.
5
The lunations are estimated with much greater precision.
6
Distant periods they calculated by the solar year, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations.
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3⅓ sec., is the exact measure of 235 of the assumed lunations.
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On the other hand, the Assyrian cycle was 1805 years, or 22,325 lunations.
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Or, more accurately - 442 d. 23 h. = 15 lunations.
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235 average lunations make 6939 days 16 hours 31 minutes.
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The excellent joints of that wheel are the parva days, viz., those sacred lunations on which religious rites are performed.
12
43 min, which is the time occupied by the moon in completing her phases, and is known as a lunar month or a lunation.