On Mon 2017-10-30T16:23:57-0700 Tom Van Baak hath writ: > In the news... > > https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/5/5.39/4159289/Solar-eclipse-of-1207-BC-helps-to-date > ( https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-pdf/58/5/5.39/20098470/atx178.pdf > )
Alas for Delta T on date -1206 October 30, that annular eclipse moves almost entirely along a parallel of latitude, so Delta T pretty much only affects the endpoint where the eclipse happened at sunset. I'm a bit disturbed by the plotted path of that eclipse because it is very wide and includes the entire Nile delta as well as modern Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Baghdad at sunset. Unless weather prevented it, somebody else should have made a record of that eclipse. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
