Adapted from the Wikipedia article Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Short term eclipse cycles repeat every six lunations (every 177 days), each set lasting three–four years. They occur at either the ascending and descending nodes of the moon’s orbit. Each set has the moon’s shadow crossing the earth near the north or south pole, and subsequent events progress toward the other pole until it misses [...]
Tecumseh’s Eclipse after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh realized that the only hope for the various tribes in east and central North America was to join together. He was assisted by his brother-Tenskwatawa -a “prophet” who called for a rejection of the “white ways” and a return to traditional values. Tenskwatawa was ready for Tecumseh had [...]
Adapted from the Wikipedia article Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Father Secchi made contributions to many areas of astronomy. * He revised Struve’s catalog of double stars, compiling data for over 10,000 binaries. * He discovered three comets, including Comet Secchi. * He produced an exact map of the lunar crater Copernicus. * He drew some of the first color illustrations of Mars and was [...]
Adapted from the Wikipedia article Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Halley’s Eclipse, after Edmund Halley (1656–1742) who predicted this eclipse to within 4 minutes accuracy. Halley observed the eclipse from London where the city of London enjoyed 3 minutes 33 seconds of totality. He also drew the first predictive map showing the path of totality across England. The original map was about 30& km off [...]
total solar eclipse of March 7, 1970 was visible across all of North America and Central America. Totality was visible across southern Mexico and across the southeast coast of the United States and Canada. Greatest eclipse occurred over Mexico and lasted up to 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Solar eclipse [...]
File:15_jan_10_eclipse_srilanka_jaffna.jpg|Eclipse taken at Jaffna Hindu College, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. File:15_jan_10_eclipse_srilanka_jaffna_library.jpg|Eclipse taken against the Jaffna Public Library, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. File:15_jan_10_eclipse_srilanka_jaffna_nallur.jpg|Eclipse taken against the Nallur Kandaswamy temple, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. File:Solar_eclipse_2010Jan15_Moon-Sun-Venus.png|Photographic equipment may allow the planet Venus to be shown about 1.5 degrees west and south of the annular ring of the sun. [...]
Total eclipse began 700 kilometers (440 miles) southeast of Tonga at approximately 18:15 UTC and reached Easter Island by 20:11 UTC. The global sky photography project The World At Night stationed photographers throughout the eclipse’s visibility track. Eclipse chasers photographed the event onboard a chartered airplane, cruise ships, numerous Pacific islands, and in Argentina’s Patagonia [...]
the most-viewed total solar eclipse in human history; although some areas in the path of totality (mainly in Western-Europe) offered impaired visibility due to adverse weather conditions. Some of the organised eclipse-watching parties along the path of totality set up video projectors on which people could watch the shadow as it raced towards them. There [...]
Historical eclipses are a very valuable resource for historians, in that they allow a few historical events to be dated precisely, from which other dates and a society’s calendar may be deduced. Aryabhata (476–550) concluded the Heliocentric theory in solar eclipse. A solar eclipse of June 15, 763 BCE mentioned in an Assyrian text is [...]
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