| A rapid cruiser of the fleet carried the Egyptian standard along the coast as far as the regions of the Orontes and saros. |
| This cycle was known to the ancients under the name of saros. |
| As Astronomer Royal his great work was the systematic observation of the positions of the moon through an entire saros. |
| Thus, the Moon's distance from Earth is the same after a whole number of anomalistic months and very nearly the same after one saros. |
| Referring to Figure 15-7 one sees how this eclipse echoes that of February 26, 1998, which was a saros earlier. |
| The saros period also comprises 238.992 anomalistic months, again nearly a whole number. |
