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Lunar Calendars and Eclipse FinderSimilar 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:
Now some lunar 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
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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