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derived/align_asc.txt. A research program Kieran shapes and a model (the "seat") writes down. "I" in these files is the seat unless a line is quoted as his. The first write-up explained the misses instead of counting them; Kieran's objection ("this is cyclic") is in the file, and so is the retraction. Snapshot of 2026-10-15 from the private repo; local addresses and paths scrubbed, nothing else changed.

  (no day given) 733 sun: A.D. 733. This year Ethelbald took Somerton; the sun was eclipsed; and Acca was 
  (no day given) 879 sun: r, and sat there a year. The same year assembled a band of pirates, and sat at F
  (no day given) 885 sun: so the Western kingdom. They were both the sons of Louis, who also had the Weste
  (no day given) 904 moon: s year came Ethelwald hither over sea with all the fleet that he could get, and 
11 eclipse records with a day, of 15
1575 computed eclipses visible at Winchester in 138..1521

offsets searched -400..400 · null mean 0.06 · sd 0.31 · max 5
  AD label +    0 → matches  5/11  z=15.9
  AD label +  -19 → matches  2/11  z=6.3
  AD label +  -18 → matches  2/11  z=6.3
  AD label +    1 → matches  2/11  z=6.3
  AD label +   27 → matches  2/11  z=6.3
  AD label +   65 → matches  2/11  z=6.3
  AD label + -391 → matches  1/11  z=3.0
  AD label + -326 → matches  1/11  z=3.0

at offset 0, record by record (slack ±1 day):
  ok  AD 538 sun   2/16  jd 1917609  computed nearby: [-1]  | A.D. 538. This year the sun was eclipsed, fourteen days before the cal
  ok  AD 540 sun   6/20  jd 1918464  computed nearby: [0]  | A.D. 540. This year the sun was eclipsed on the twelfth day before the
  NO  AD 664 sun   5/11  jd 1963715  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | A.D. 664. This year the sun was eclipsed, on the eleventh of May; and 
  NO  AD 795 moon  3/28  jd 2011518  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | A.D. 795. This year was the moon eclipsed, between cock-crowing and da
  ok  AD 800 moon  1/16  jd 2013273  computed nearby: [-1]  | A.D. 800. This year was the moon eclipsed, at eight in the evening, on
  NO  AD 802 moon 12/20  jd 2014342  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | A.D. 802. This year was the moon eclipsed, at dawn, on the thirteenth 
  ok  AD 806 moon  9/ 1  jd 2015693  computed nearby: [0]  | A.D. 806. This year was the moon eclipsed, on the first of September; 
  NO  AD 807 sun   7/16  jd 2016011  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | A.D. 807. This year was the sun eclipsed, precisely at eleven in the m
  NO  AD 827 moon 12/25  jd 2023478  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | A.D. 827. This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night;
  NO  AD 1077 moon  2/16  jd 2114479  computed nearby: none within 3 days  | burned, one night before the Assumption of St. Mary, so terribly as it
  ok  AD 1121 moon  4/ 5  jd 2130598  computed nearby: [-1]  | Windsor was given him to wife Athelis; soon afterwards consecrated que

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