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NASA Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses (Espenak and Meeus), catalog pages and Besselian elements. Used by scripts/eclipse_local.py and scripts/eclipse_baserate.py

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This book or paper is where we read about No candidate eclipse was securely total at Ugarit; 1223 BC about 5 to 11 percent
This book or paper is where we read about The 30 October 1207 BC ring of fire did cross Gibeon, near sunset
This book or paper is where we read about The 16 April 1178 BC eclipse: only about a 1 in 3 chance it was total at Ithaca