Amry

@nimbostratigorus.bsky.social

Born on the Europe server. I love games and painting and modelling and cards and He/Him | En/Fr

Was trying to figure out when I need to get up to catch the eclipse tomorrow, but what do you mean it "belongs to Saros 126"? Can't a guy just look at the sky, without the copyright squad coming for m... oh. It's a word for a particular celestial cycle. 242 Draconic Months long, you say? I see.

A NASA image depicting the path of totally of the eclipse, from Greenland to Spain, and the wider area of partial eclipse visibility. Ranging from Canada to North AfricaWiki page for Saros (astronomy)

In astronomy, the saros is a length of time covering exactly 223 synodic months (18 years 11 days and 8 hours), nearly 242 draconic months, and nearly 239 anomalistic months. Arising naturally due to synchronization between lunar phase, nodal precession, and apsidal precession, it can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon.