References Useful for Solar Eclipses Predictions

Bretagnon, P., and Simon, J. L., Planetary Programs and Tables from -4000 to +2800, Willmann-Bell, Richmond, Virginia, 1986.

Dunham, J. B, Dunham, D. W. and Warren, W. H., IOTA Observer's Manual, (draft copy), 1992.

Espenak, F., Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035, NASA RP-1178, Greenbelt, MD, 1987.

Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office, London, 1974.

Herald, D., "Correcting Predictions of Solar Eclipse Contact Times for the Effects of Lunar Limb Irregularities," J. Brit. Ast. Assoc., 1983, 93, 6.

Meeus, J., Astronomical Formulae for Calculators, Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, 1982.

Meeus, J., Grosjean, C., and Vanderleen, W., Canon of Solar Eclipses, Pergamon Press, New York, 1966.

Morrison, L. V., "Analysis of lunar occultations in the years 1943-1974," Astr. J., 1979, 75, 744.

Morrison, L. V., and Appleby, G. M., "Analysis of lunar occultations - III. Systematic corrections to Watts' limb-profiles for the Moon," Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 1981, 196, 1013.

van den Bergh, G., Periodicity and Variation of Solar (and Lunar) Eclipses, Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, Netherlands, 1955.

Watts, C. B., "The Marginal Zone of the Moon," Astron. Papers Amer. Ephem., 1963, 17, 1-951.

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