Saros cycle
The saros () is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period ...
series 126 for
lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth ...
s occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 70 member events, with 14 total eclipses, starting in 1769 and ending in 2003.
Lunar Eclipses of Saros 126, Fred Espenak
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This lunar saros is linked to Solar Saros 133
Saros cycle series 133 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.
Solar Saros 133 is one of the saros series ...
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List
See also
* List of lunar eclipses
There are several lists of lunar eclipses
On the Moon, by the Earth
; Type
* List of central lunar eclipses
* Total penumbral lunar eclipse
; Classification
* List of saros series for lunar eclipses
* Tetrad (astronomy) contains lists of tetrads ...
** List of Saros series for lunar eclipses
Notes
External links
www.hermit.org: Saros 126
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Lunar saros series