Eclipse Search

Want to do some eclipse research of your own? Well, now it's easy! Fred Espenak of NASA has published a Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses, listing all solar eclipses from 2000 BC to 3000 AD. I have converted this catalog into database form, and added a search engine so that you can search for particular combinations of circumstances. You can search the database simply by filling in the form below.

There are full statistics on the eclipses in the database on the statistics page. Don't forget to also check out my listings of future lunar and solar eclipses, for detailed descriptions and maps of eclipses up to 2020.

Note that all dates in the database up to Oct 04, 1582 are in the Julian calendar; all dates after Oct 15 1582 are Gregorian.

If you'd like to do your own experimentation with this data, you can download the raw database if you wish (1.4 Mb); remember that this data was created by Fred Espenak, and as Mr. Espenak says, ``Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment''. You are also welcome to my Perl script that implements the search engine (15k). You can also get the source for this page, to see how it is invoked; it uses the Apache server-side include mechanism.

Any bugs in the results of this search engine are almost certainly mine, for which I apologise in advance; though I have tried to make this facility accurate and useful, I can't guarantee that it is.