| 1. | Dividing by 5 / 2 produces 5458 synodic months = 5923 precisely.
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| 2. | The synodic month had already been measured to a high degree of accuracy.
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| 3. | The Babylonians expressed all periods in synodic months, probably because they used a lunisolar calendar.
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| 4. | The synodic month is used to calculate eclipse cycles.
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| 5. | The white disk rotates once in a synodic month.
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| 6. | This is called a synodic month.
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| 7. | The full moon cycle is slightly less than 14 synodic months and slightly less than 15 anomalistic months.
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| 8. | The saros is an eclipse cycle of 223 synodic months = 239 anomalistic months = 242 draconic months.
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| 9. | The cycle from one New Moon to the next runs on an entirely different cycle, the Synodic month.
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| 10. | The day was 21.9?.4 hours, and there were 13.1?.1 synodic months / year and 400? solar days / year.
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