find_eclipses

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Finds the solar and lunar eclipses nearest a date: greatest eclipse to the second in UTC, type (total, annular, partial, penumbral), obscuration, the eclipsed body's sign, days from the date asked about, and for a solar eclipse where greatest eclipse meets the Earth. Given a place, each listing ALSO carries what that observer gets — local kind, first contact, maximum, last contact, and altitude at each. Use it for the next eclipse, eclipses near a historical date, or visibility from a place. DELEGATE THIS RATHER THAN DERIVING IT, ESPECIALLY THE VISIBILITY HALF: the 6,585.3-day saros puts eclipses in families easy to confuse by a year or a continent, but the failure that matters is subtler — A GLOBAL ECLIPSE IS NOT AN EVENT FOR EVERYBODY. Telling somebody a thousand miles off the path that there is a total solar eclipse is a sentence in which every word is true and the meaning is false. This separates global circumstances from local ones, including cases a bare "visible" hides: the Moon setting partway through, or the eclipse already underway at moonrise. CITATION: required. See server instructions.