Saros enables you to find any solar eclipse between about 2500 BC and 3500 AD, and to display or save a graphical representation of the path of the central line.
Saros brings distributed pair programming to Eclipse. It features instant messaging capabilities, shared text file editting and shared file operations. Saros is a project by the Software-Engineering group of the Freie Universität Berlin.
A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
a unit of time used in astronomy, mostly in predicting solar and lunar eclipses. The saros is equal to 6585.32 days (6585 days 7 hours 23 minutes), which is exactly 223 lunar months. (This is either 10 or 11 days more than 18 years, depending on the number of leap years during the period.) Astronomers in ancient times discovered that the saros is very nearly equal to 19 eclipse years (6585.78 days). This means that one saros after an eclipse the Sun, Moon, and Earth return almost exactly to the same position and another, very similar eclipse occurs. However, because of the 7 hours 23 minutes included, the Earth has turned about one third of a revolution and the new eclipse occurs about 116° of longitude west of the preceding one. After 3 saros, the eclipse returns nearly to its original location. Thus eclipses at a particular location tend to repeat with a period of 3 saros or 54 years 1 month. Thus the last total solar eclipse in North Carolina, on 1970 March 7, will repeat on 2024 April 8 and again on 2078 May 11.
A period of approximately 18 years, during which eclipses tend to repeat their characteristics, as a result of a nearly perfect (coincidental) equality between 223 synodic months, 242 draconic months, and 239 anomalistic months. Known as far back as Chaldean times, and used by the Chaldeans to predict lunar eclipses.
A period of time after which the sequence of solar and lunar eclipses repeats. It is 6585.32 days in length (about 18 years). Eclipses in each cycle occur about 8 hurs later than they did in the prior cycle.
The saros is the roughly 18-year periodic cycle of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. Every 6,585 days, the Earth, Moon and Sun are in exactly the same position. When there is a lunar eclipse, there will also be one exactly 6,585 days later.
The eclipse cycle with a period of 223 synodic months, or 6,585.32 days (18 years and about 11 days).
