On these pages I will add regularly remarkable facts about eclipse or eclipse cycles. In my search for these fact I have used the series of Mathematical Astromy Morsels books by Jean Meeus, and the data from the Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA/GSPC).

In the 5 millennium period from -1999 until 3000 there will be 11898 eclipses. The total eclipse of 1 August 2008 will be no. 9526.
 

The number of eclipses per century varies between 222 and 255, as is shown in the graph on the left, and seems to repeat after almost 6 centuries.

More trivia on:

• Non-central solar eclipses (new)
• Solar eclipse duos and double duo's
• Total eclipses with long duration > 7 min
• The 586 year period
• Some rare eclipse intervals (34, 101 and 257 lunations)
• Some trivia on small and large partial eclipses
• ....