According to the NASA 6 millenium catalog of eclipses, each ecliipse in a Saros series is separated by an interval of 18 yers and 11.3 days. The eclipse of Jul 18 1860 had a Saros number of #124. Thus the next eclipse in the series was Jul 29, 1878, and the one after that Aug 9, 1896.
Thus Verne was correct in the timing of his eclipse to be 1896 when the friends would meet again, although it would not be twenty four years. The latitude of greatest totality was 52.5 in 1860, 53.8 in 1876, and 54.4 in 1896. I guess that is close enough for Government work.
Never cut the master short!
nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
Received on Thu 15 Jun 2006 - 18:29:56 IDT
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