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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 the earth and the series ends. The saros cycle increments by 5 within each set, and 5 different sets repeat every 18 years, the saros period.

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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 learned from explorers that a total Solar Eclipse was to occur. Tecumseh ordered the Great Spirit to release the sun.

José Joaquin de Ferrer observed from Kinderhook, New York and gave the name corona to the glow of the faint

outer atmosphere of the Sun seen during a total eclipse; he proposes that the corona must belong to the Sun, not the Moon, because of its great size. Ferrer also states, that during the total eclipse of 1806, the irregulations of the moon’s surface were plainly discernible.

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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 the first to refer to “canali”, the Italian word for channels, on the planetary surface.

Fr. Secchi was especially interested in the Sun, which he observed continually throughout his career.

* He observed and made drawings of solar eruptions and sunspots, and compiled records of sunspot activity.

* In 1860 and 1870, he organized expeditions to observe solar eclipses.

* He proved that the solar corona and coronal prominences observed during a solar eclipse were part of the Sun, and not artifacts of the eclipse.

* He discovered solar spicules.

However, his main area of interest was astronomical spectroscopy. He invented the heliospectrograph, star spectrograph, and telespectroscope. He showed that certain absorption lines in the spectrum of the Sun were caused by absorption in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Starting in 1863, he began collecting the spectra of stars, accumulating some 4,000 stellar spectrograms. Through analysis of this data, he discovered that the stars come in a limited number of distinct types and subtypes, which could be distinguished by their different spectral patterns. From this concept, he developed the first system of stellar classification: the five Secchi c

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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 the observed eclipse path. After the eclipse, he corrected the eclipse path, and added the path and description of the 1724 total solar eclipse.

Note: Great Britain didn’t adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, so the date was considered 22 April 1715.

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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.

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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.

File:SE2010Jan15A.gif|Animation of path

File:Tvmeclipses.jpg|Stages of solar eclipse in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India.

File:Solar_Eclipse_January_2010.jpg|Photograph of the eclipse seen from India

File:Lunar_Eclipse_05.41_UT.JPG|The eclipse from Degania A, Israel, 05:41 UT

File:20100115montage.jpg|Montage of the eclipse from Degania A, Israel, from 05:03 UT to 07:05 UT

File:15 January 2010 Solar Eclipse from Malaysia.JPG|Photograph of the solar eclipse seen from Jengka 21, Pahang, Malaysia.

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File:Chennai_Eclipse.jpg|Photograph of the ending stages of the eclipse as seen from Chennai

File:Solar_Eclipse_15_Jan_2010_view_from_Pallipalayam_Tamilnadu.jpg‎ | Photograph of Partial Stage from Pallipalayam, Tamilnadu, India.

File:Solar_Eclipse_15_Jan_2010_reflection_on_floor_at_pallipalayam.jpg| Reflection of Solar Eclipse on floor due to holes at roof in palliapalayam, Tamilnadu, India.

Image:Annular Solar Eclipse over India.jpg|Satellite im

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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 region. Totality was observed for four minutes and 41 seconds (4:41) on Easter Island, where it was observed for the first time in 1,400 years. Approximately 4,000 observers visited Easter Island for this eclipse, including tourists, scientists, photographers, filmmakers and journalists, prompting an increase in security at its important moai archeological sites. The eclipse occurred at the same time that the final game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup was being played in South Africa, and many soccer fans in Tahiti watched the match instead of observing the partial eclipse with a high percentage of obscuring the sun by about 98 percent. The path of totality of this eclipse barely missed some significant inhabited islands, including passing just about 20 km north of the northern end of Tahiti.

This eclipse was the first one to happen over French Polynesia in 350 years. An estimated 5,000 tourists visited various islands in the archipelago to observe the event. Nearly 120,000 pairs of special glasses were distributed for observers. Eclipse chasers were also able to observe the eclipse at El Calafate, near the southern tip of Argentina, before the sun set just two minutes later.

Several hours after the eclipse was observed in continental Chile, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck in the Antofagasta Region. There were no major injuries or damage in the nearby cities of Calama, Chile and San Pedro de Atacama.

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