Eclipse
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(klps´, -) [Gr.,=failing], in astronomy, partial or total obscuring of one celestial body by the shadow of another.
Eclipses
The annular eclipse of 4 January 1992 seen at sunset from San Diego, California. Dennis Mammana, 2003.
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ECLIPSE GLOSSARY
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Eclipse
A celestial alignment in which two bodies lie on a line passing through the position of the observer. Eclipses may also occur involving when the shadow of the closer body occults the farther body. can occur only at , which occur on ...
Definition: eclipse: The passage of one celestial body in front of another, cutting off the light from the second body (e.g. an eclipse of the sun by the moon, or an eclipse of one star in a binary system by the other).
Eclipse
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An eclipse (Ancient Greek noun έκ"ειψις (kleipsis), from verb εκ"είπω (eklepō), "I vanish," a combination of prefix εκ- (ek-), from preposition εκ, εξ (ek, ex), ...
Eclipses
A solar eclipse occurs when the new Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, casting a shadow on the Earth. There are three types of solar eclipses: annular, partial, and total.
Eclipses of the Moon
Sometimes, as the Earth orbits the Sun, it comes between the Sun and the Moon. When this happens, the Earth throws a dark shadow across the Moon. This is known as an eclipse of the Moon, or a lunar eclipse.
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Lunar eclipse
An eclipse refers to the phenomenon of one body passing into the shadow cast by another body. In astronomy, the best-known type of eclipse occurs whenever the Sun, Earth and Moon line up exactly.
Solar Eclipse
A solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, its shadow blotting out the sun.
Solar eclipse
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Solar eclipse (not to scale)
As noted above, the images that we show in discussing eclipses are illustrative but not drawn to scale.
Eclipses were, to the ancients, perhaps the most striking, important event in the heavens. Ritual and ceremony were practiced worldwide at the time of eclipses, and many astrologers were executed for failing to predict eclipses.
Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. They are rare because the Moon usually passes above or below the imaginary line connecting Earth and the Sun. In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun.
Eclipses visible from Iowa are in bold
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Mid eclipse, or the eclipse's deepest moment, comes at 11:40 p.m. Even at this dark hour, the northern (top) part of the Moon will likely look lighter than the southern (bottom) part, which passes more closely to, though above, ...
Lunar Eclipse
Earth - the planet on which we live.
Moon - the natural satellite of the Earth.
Penumbra - the area in which the shadow of an object (in this case, the Earth on the moon) is partial.
Sun - the star in our Solar System.
Solar Eclipse
The sun is beginning to move out from behind the moon in this picture of a total eclipse. Image Credit: NASA
During a solar eclipse, the moon comes between the sun and Earth so that all or part of the sun's light is blocked from Earth.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth's shadow falls on the moon. Lunar eclipses occur, on average, about every 6 months.
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Martian Solar Eclipses
The shadow of the Martian moon, Phobos, is captured here by the Mars Global Surveyor wide angle camera. Frequent solar eclipses are caused by the passage of Phobos between Mars and the Sun.
Total Solar Eclipse
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ECLIPSE
ECLIPSE, in astronomy, the obscuring of one celestial body by another, particularly that of the sun or a planetary satellite.
ECLIPSES
From time to time"but only at new or full Moon"the Sun and the Moon line up precisely as seen from Earth, and we observe the spectacular phenomenon known as an eclipse.
Eclipses
Lunar eclipses occur whenever the Moon falls into the shadow of the Earth. The shadow of the Earth can be divided into two areas, the umbra and the penumbra. When you are in the umbra, the Sun is totally blocked by the Earth.
Eclipse Web Sites
The following sites are probably the best and most complete ones on the web. You'll find eclipse predictions, photographs, observing instructions, and fairly complete indexes of all high-quality eclipse sites on the web.
ECLIPSE - Obscuring of one celestial body by another, either by direct superposition or by the casting of a shadow.
eclipse Event during which one body passes in front of another, so that the light from the occulted body is blocked.
eclipse season Times of the year when the Moon lies in the same plane as the Earth and Sun, so that eclipses are possible.
eclipse: (of the moon or the sun) the phenomenon which occurs when the Earth (or at least the observer's location), sun and moon lie on a straight line.
Eclipse
(a) Occultation of one celestial body by another which passes between it and the observer.
Eclipse. Eclipses occur when the Sun, Moon, and Earth precisely line up. The Moon, in its orbit around the Earth, is inclined at about 5 degrees to the ecliptic (the plane at which the Earth orbits the Sun).
Eclipse When one object passes into the shadow of another.
Eclipse of the Moon When the Moon passes into the shadow cone of the Earth.
eclipse
an event in which one body passes in front of another, blocking it partially or completely from view; a specific type of occultation
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Eclipse An alignment of two bodies with the observer such that either the nearer body prevents the light from the further body from reaching the observer (strictly speaking, these are occultations), e.g.
Eclipse- when one celestial body passes in front of another, dimming or obscuring its light (e.g. solar, lunar, and eclipsing binaries)
Ecliptic- the apparent yearly path of the sun against the stars ...
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The event in which one celestial body passes in front of another, blocking the light from the more distant object.
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The cutting off, or blocking, of light from one celestial body by another.
ecliptic
The plane of Earth's orbit about the Sun ...
Eclipse
the total or partial blocking of one celestial body by another.
Eclipse Year
The 346.62 days it takes the sun to return to a node
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Eclipse, solar. The passage of the Moon in front of the Sun so that the Moon is directly in front of the Sun. Totality may last for a little over 7 minutes under favourable conditions. Partial eclipses occur when the Sun is incompletely covered.
eclipse season: That period when the sun is near a node of the moon's orbit and eclipses are possible.
eclipse year: The time the sun takes to circle the sky and return to a node of the moon's orbit; 346.62 days.
Eclipse Track - The path of the Moon's shadow across the Earth during a solar eclipse
Eclipse Year - The interval of time (346.6 days) from one passage of the Sun through a node of the Moon's orbit to the next passage through the same node ...
The Eclipse
In a total eclipse of the Sun, the Moon just barely covers the Sun. The Sun itself is so distant that when viewed from anywhere on Earth, it covers practically the same patch of the sky, with a width of about 0.5.
Lunar Eclipse
An eclipse of the Moon can only occur at FULL MOON and only if the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow (see diagram 2 under phases of the Moon).
solar eclipse--The obstruction of the moon by the Sun that happens when the moon's orbit causes it to pass between the Sun and the Earth ...
Zenith eclipse
Parnell successfully exposed a devious Conservative intrigue to associate him and his party with crime and violence through forged "Pigott Papers" from which he was vindicated in February 1890.
Annular eclipse - a type of solar eclipse in which a ring (annulus) of sunlight remains visible.
Asteroid - a "minor planet" ,a chunk of rock smaller than planet-size but larger than a meteoroid, in orbit around a star.
Eclipses in AM Her systems provide a graphic illustration of this stream geometry.
Eclipse
The blocking of some or all of the light from one object by another. This eclipse image is courtesy of NASA DFRC.
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Eclipses are a very important part of astronomy. To understand them you have to learn the fundamentals of the geometry of orbits and the physics of shadows.
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ECLIPSE
An eclipse happens when the moon blocks the Sun or the Earth's shadow falls on the moon.
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Eclipse
When our view of one object in the sky is blocked by either another object, or the Earths shadow.
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eclipse - (n.)
The hiding of one celestial body by another. The hiding of a star by a body of larger angular size is usually called an occultation.
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eclipses. They were, on the other hand, probably acquainted, a couple of millenniums before Meton gave it his name, with the nineteen-year cycle, by which solar and lunar years were harmonized; 1 they immemorially made observations in the meridian; ...
An eclipse in which the Moon passes through the shadow cast by the Earth.
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