SYZYGY · GUIDED CANON
An eclipse is a narrow gate.
Operate the geometry behind the darkness, then follow the same alignment through five millennia of human history.
01 · SYZYGY
A new or full Moon is only the invitation.
The Sun, Earth, and Moon must first line up. That alignment gives us the phase—but it does not yet guarantee an eclipse.
SELECT A CANON EVENT2026-08-12
Gamma offset0.898
Maximum duration2m 18s
Shadow geometry2026 CE
SELECTED CANONEuropean Total Solar Eclipse of 2026
SERIESSaros 126
Historical anchor
European Total Solar Eclipse of 2026
Greenland, Western Iceland, Northern Spain (Balearic Islands at sunset)
The gate is narrow; the canon is long.
The 5,000-Year Eclipse Time Machine
Espenak & Meeus Five-Millennium Canon (-1999 BCE to +3000 CE) with Saros series genealogies.
Prominent Saros Dynasties
Historical Eclipses (-584 BCE to 2186 CE)
1919 CE · 1919-05-29Solar Total
Eddington's General Relativity Verification
Protagonists: Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Frank Dyson
Starlight deflection near the eclipsed solar limb confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational spacetime curvature over Newtonian mechanics, creating a global scientific revolution.
Visibility: Equatorial Atlantic, Príncipe Island, Sobral Brazil
Saros SeriesSaros 136
Eclipse Magnitude1.072
Totality Duration6m 51s
NASA Canon ID: ecl-1919-05-29Gamma: 0.198
Eclipse Explorer
18 eclipses · 2025–2028 · Interactive visibility maps