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 perio ...

series 116 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 mo ...

s occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node. This solar saros is linked to Lunar Saros 109.

Solar Saros 116

Lunar Saros 109 interleaves with this solar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

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 116 appears in the following table.

Events

References

NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 116

External links

Saros cycle 116 - Information and visualization
(Solar-Eclipse info) {{Solar eclipses Solar saros series