Here is a list of the 77 times that I've been touched by the wandering shadows of Earth and Moon. This personal canon of eclipses begins with an almost clouded out partial solar eclipse on October 2, 1959. On March 12, 1960, my mother promised me a lunar eclipse, but since I do not recall seeing it, that event might have clouded out also. (The eclipses that are lettered, not numbered, are events I planned to see but did not see.) However, according to this canon, I did see that eclipse – perhaps not in 1960, but when lunar saros 122 repeated itself two cycles later on April 4, 1996. (See below.)

My first total solar eclipse, on July 20, 1963, was a part of saros 145. I saw it again on August 11, 1999. When the cycles of the solar system converge again, I hope to enjoy the eclipse one more time, when it crosses the United States on August 21, 2017.