I thought too late of adding this to yesterday’s post about the annular eclipse of Saturday October 14:
After 54 years, that is, 3 saros intervals, comes an eclipse that is more closely similar, because the third-of-a-day difference is removed and the track is over roughly the same geographical region: 2077 November 15,
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