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When to Use Saros Cycle Eclipse Explorer 3D - Best Sessions and Limits
Open the Saros Cycle Eclipse Explorer 3D when you need a real eclipse-series repetition lesson with published saros and exeligmos figures - without pulling a live ephemeris.
A repetition-pattern lesson
A lesson starts when you step through several eclipses in a row and watch the ground track march about 120 degrees west each time, then jump 3 steps to see the exeligmos bring it back near where it started.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are lessons about a single eclipse's shadow-cone geometry in detail - use the Solar Eclipse 3D Explorer for that - or why eclipses group into two seasons a year; use the Lunar Nodes & Eclipse Seasons explorer. Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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