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 131 for
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
s occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.
This solar saros is linked to
Lunar Saros 124
Saros cycle series 124 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 73 member events, with 28 total eclipses, starting in 1657 and ending in 2144. The order is 20 penumbral, 8 partial, 28 total, 8 p ...
.
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 131 appears in the following table.
Events
References
* http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros131.html
External links
Saros cycle 131 - Information and visualization
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Solar saros series