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Dimbleby · All Past Time · cycle reconstruction

Every eclipse, from 3996 BC to AD 3648.

The complete catalogue the app carries: 35,387 solar and lunar eclipses, each located in Dimbleby's repeating pattern — the 18-year team, the Saros and Inex series, the 649-year Date-Repeating Cycle. The next eclipse is found by referencing a date's place in the lattice, not by running an ephemeris. It is deterministic and offline: a single binary search over a sorted column of Julian Days.

Eclipses catalogued
Year range
Solar
Lunar
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Eclipses after this date

GregorianDimblebyTypeMemberTeam·Line649#·YrA.M.

Place in the pattern

Select a row to read its full place in the wheels.

Catalogue

GregorianTypeMagγSarosTeam·LineMemberConfidence

Eclipse detail

Select a row to inspect an eclipse.

The nested ladder — each level contains the one above it

Cycle constants (mean lengths)

Trace a Saros series

#GregorianTypeγ

The 649-year Date-Repeating Cycle