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 147 for

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s occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node. This solar saros is linked to Lunar Saros 140.

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 147 appears in the following table.

Solar Saros 147

Solar Saros 147, repeats every 18 years, 11 and 1/3 days, and contains 80 events in which 40 will be partial eclipses and 40 will be annular. There are no total or hybrid eclipses in this series. It includes 25 central solar eclipses with a penumbral internal contact (penumbra northern and southern limits), starting in

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and ending in

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. Lunar Saros 140 interleaves with this solar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Events

References

* http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros147.html

External links

Saros cycle 147 - Information and visualization
{{Solar eclipses Solar saros series