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 ...
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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 descending node, repeats every 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 72 member events, with 15 total eclipses, starting in 1950 and ending in 2202.
Lunar Eclipses of Saros 131, Fred Espenak
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The series contains 57 umbral eclipses between 1553 and 2563 (total eclipses between 1950 and 2202).
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 131
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Lunar saros series