The Sun and the Moon, the Ultimate Timekeepers.

The eclipse is the most magical marker of time you’ll ever get to witness. For a brief moment in time you, the sun and the moon align in total darkness. Imagine being the first to encounter this, must have been terrifying.

Astronomers have known how to predict eclipses for millennia. They appear in certain patterns and repeat every 18 years and 111.3 days but appears in different places across the planet.

These two links offers great additional insights.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ancient-humans-studied-and-predicted-solar-eclipses/#:~:text=Then%2C%20after%20more%20time%2C%20these,occurred%2C%20called%20the%20Saros%20cycle.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/do-the-paths-of-totality-during-solar-eclipses-follow-a-repeating-pattern/

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I thought the ultimate time keeper was my GS Quartz😀

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leleke

I thought the ultimate time keeper was my GS Quartz😀

Time to think again!😂

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Very nice!!