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What is a saros?

What is a saros? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (historical, Babylon) A period of 3600 years.
  2. (astronomy) A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.
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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.
Total solar eclipse tracks perform consistent geographical steps within a saros, as in Figure 2.2, and there are systematic trends in other eclipse sequences.
He is against its being so far north as the Gulf of saros and the narrow neck of land there.
As Astronomer Royal his great work was the systematic observation of the positions of the moon through an entire saros.
A rapid cruiser of the fleet carried the Egyptian standard along the coast as far as the regions of the Orontes and saros.
Referring to Figure 15-7 one sees how this eclipse echoes that of February 26, 1998, which was a saros earlier.

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