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Saros cycle 120 - Information and visualization
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The 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 120 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. 55 of these are umbral eclipses. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and transitioned into an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and are total eclipses from June 8, 1564 through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.
Umbral eclipses
Umbral eclipses (annular, total and hybrid) can be further classified as either: 1) Central (two limits), 2) Central (one limit) or 3) Non-Central (one limit). The statistical distribution of these classes in Saros series 120 appears in the following table.Events
References
* http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros120.htmlExternal links
Saros cycle 120 - Information and visualization
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