Episode 202 Further musing on Eclipses and the Saros Cycle.

<p>Eclipses come in series called Saros Cycles. </p> <p>And how to look at eclipses and your own chart.</p> <p>Bernadette Brady Astrologer has studied and written about Saros Cycles. An important lunar periodicity that was <strong>probably first observed and named by Babylonian astronomers about two millennia BC</strong>, the Saros cycle came down to us through the compilations of Hipparchus and Ptolemy. It was successfully employed to predict a solar eclipse on 28 May 585 BC by Thales of Miletus.</p> <p> </p>