Lunar Calendars - the Missing Date Lines
Abstract
Recent studies on global visibility of the new lunar crescent have revealed the systematic nature of the phenomenon and have given rise to a global international date-line system suitable for the internationalization of the lunar calendar based on the concept of "first visibility". Extending this study to several lunar calendars has shown that the lunar date-line concept is a natural and integral part of lunar calendrical systems.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- Pub Date:
- December 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986JRASC..80..328I