Maps of Solar Eclipses from 1980 to 1984

Astronomers Hermann Mucke and Jean Meeus published their Canon of Solar Eclipses in 1983. This volume gives circumstance data and overview maps for 10774 solar eclipses over four and a half millennia, by far the longest span of eclipses computed to this date.

For each solar eclipse, the overview map shows the Earth from the perspective of the Moon at greatest eclipse, along with the central line and northern and southern limits. The eclipse path and limit lines are not curved as they should be; instead the maps show the lines from the Moon as the Earth spins beneath. This is very similar to the very first eclipse map from 1654.