Editing Eclipse cycle (section)

===Repetition of solar eclipses===
For two solar eclipses to be almost identical, the geometric alignment of the Earth, Moon and Sun, as well as some parameters of the lunar orbit should be the same. The following parameters and criteria must be repeated for the repetition of a solar eclipse:
# The Moon must be in new phase.
# The longitude of [[perigee]] or [[apogee]] of the Moon must be the same.
# The longitude of the [[Orbital node|ascending node]] or [[Orbital node|descending node]] must be the same.
# The Earth will be nearly the same distance from the Sun, and tilted to it in nearly the same orientation.
These conditions are related to the three periods of the Moon's orbital motion, viz. the [[synodic month]], [[anomalistic month]] and [[draconic month]], and to the [[anomalistic year]]. In other words, a particular eclipse will be repeated only if the Moon will complete roughly an integer number of synodic, draconic, and anomalistic periods and the Earth-Sun-Moon geometry will be nearly identical. The Moon will be at the same node and the same distance from the Earth. This happens after the period called the [[Saros (astronomy)|saros]]. [[Gamma (eclipse)|Gamma]] (how far the Moon is north or south of the ecliptic during an eclipse) changes monotonically throughout any single saros series. The change in gamma is larger when Earth is near its aphelion (June to July) than when it is near perihelion (December to January). When the Earth is near its average distance (March to April or September to October), the change in gamma is average.