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How Rare is the April 2024 Eclipse?

2024-04-07

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References

Thanks to Fred Espenak for all the resources and answering my emails, he really is Mr. Eclipse!

https://www.mreclipse.com/

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Millennium-Canon-Solar-Eclipses/dp/1941983391

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saros_(astronomy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inex

Canon of eclipses, 1887. Theodor von Oppolzer.

Periodicity and Variation of Solar (and Lunar) Eclipses, Georg van den Bergh, 1955

Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts A Aaboe, J.P. Britton, J.A. Henderson, O. Neugebauer, and AJ. Sachs. Text D ("Solar Saros") B.M. 36754 (80-6-17, 48 + 564)

Credits

Annular Solar Eclipse Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023_Annual_Eclipse.jpg

Total Solar Eclipse Image: Luc Viator https://lucnix.be/

Original Saros Inex Panorama Design by Georg van den Bergh

Errata

8:10 Oppolzer dates should be 1841-1886