User Manual for
Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder
Similar Eclipses and More

It is a characteristic of eclipses in a saros series that every third eclipse in the series has a similar latitude and longitude. Thus to find out when there will again be a similar eclipse over Europe we proceed as follows: First select Eclipse in same saros series then search forward to the third eclipse, to obtain:

Thus the eclipse of 1999-08-11 CE over Europe will be repeated on 2053-09-12 CE.


Here are some further examples of eclipse data produced by this software. First some solar eclipses:

  CE date + GMT     JC     AJD     Eclipse type     Saros number  
  2001-06-21 12:04     2001-06-08     2,452,082.0028     central total     127  
  1505-02-14 06:24     1505-02-04     2,270,793.7668     partial     103  
  1000-10-06 11:11     1000-09-30     2,086,580.9661     central annular     108  
  500-02-16 09:32      500-02-15     1,903,727.8973     central annular-total     77  

Now some lunar eclipses:

  CE date + GMT     JC     AJD     Eclipse type     Saros number  
  2003-05-16 03:40     2003-05-03     2,452,775.6526     total     121  
  1502-10-25 23:05     1502-10-15     2,269,951.4618     partial     128  
  1002-03-07 23:18     1002-03-01     2,087,098.4705     total     97  
  501-01-22 10:34      501-01-20     1,904,067.9405     penumbral     61  

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