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Celtic Calendar: Pleiades Cycle
Reason for 503BC as start, and 30 years as ages, of the Coligny Calendar
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Now when at intervals of thirty years the star of Cronus, which we call 'Splendent' but they, our author said, call 'Night-watchman', enters the sign of the Bull, they, having spent a long time in preparation for the sacrifice and the expedition, choose by lot and send forth a sufficient number of envoys in a correspondingly sufficient number of ships ... while those who have served the god together for the stint of thirty years are allowed to sail off home
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That the Celts used the first-quarter moon as the first day of their months explains why their period of the day extends from successive sunsets: on the first day of the Celtic month the moon is directly overhead split into dual sunlit and dark halves, a precise astronomical observation
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