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Solar Eclipses

Solar Eclipse is an eclipse of the sun occurs when the moon revolving in its orbit around the earth comes between the sun and the earth. The moon blocks the light of the sun and a shadow of the moon is cast over the earth's surface.Solar eclipses occur at intervals of just under six months.

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Related facts about solar eclipse does it cause any natural disaster when it occurs?

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A solar eclipse itself does not cause any natural disasters. However, during a total solar eclipse, the sudden change in lighting conditions can confuse nocturnal animals and birds. In rare cases, some animals may become disoriented or behave differently during the eclipse. Additionally, it is important to take proper precautions while observing a solar eclipse to protect your eyes from potential harm caused by looking directly at the sun.

When will the solar eclipse occur in Toronto?

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It's estimated that there will be a total solar eclipse in Toronto on 8 April 2024.

There'll also be a partial solar eclipse tonight (May 20, 2012) but it'll either be not visible or right at sunset so I hope you get this soon ;)

Please see the related links section for a link to a website with dates for eclipses in Toronto.

Which type of solar eclipse occurs for the part of the earth in the umbra of the moon's shadow?

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A total solar eclipse occurs for the part of the Earth in the umbra of the moon's shadow. During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the Sun, creating a temporary period of darkness on Earth.

What is the red ring called during a total solar eclipse?

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The red ring that is visible around the darkened disk of the Moon during a total solar eclipse is called the solar corona. It is the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, composed of superheated plasma. The corona is usually invisible due to the overwhelming brightness of the Sun, but during a total solar eclipse, it becomes visible as a beautiful halo of red or white light.

Why spring tides do not cause solar eclipse?

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Spring tides are caused by the combined gravitational pull of the sun and the moon when they are aligned. However, solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, blocking the sun's light. This alignment for a solar eclipse does not coincide with the alignment necessary for spring tides.

What two events need to occur for a total solar eclipse to happen?

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For a total solar eclipse to occur, two events need to take place. First, the Moon must be in its new moon phase and align itself directly in front of the Sun. Second, the Earth, Moon, and Sun must be in near perfect alignment, with the Moon casting its shadow on a specific region of the Earth, resulting in the Moon completely blocking out the Sun's light for a brief period of time.

The lunar and solar eclipse 1963?

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In 1963, there were several lunar and solar eclipses. The lunar eclipses occurred on April 25th and October 18th, visible from various parts of the world. The solar eclipses took place on May 9th and November 2nd, and were visible in different regions as well.

Why does a solar eclipse happen during the day?

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A solar eclipse happens during the day because it occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, casting its shadow on Earth's surface. The Moon blocks the sunlight, causing a temporary darkness on Earth known as the eclipse. However, not everyone on Earth experiences a solar eclipse during the day as the eclipse's visibility depends on the viewer's location.

Why does a solar eclipse occur during a new moon?

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Because the moon gets between the sun and the Earth. You can't see a new moon because the sun is behind it and not shining on the face that we always see. A solar eclipse can only happen when the moon is between the sun and earth, perfectly aligned.

Does a solar eclipse occurs on a new moon day?

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That's the only time when the moon is on-line between the Sun and Earth, so

it's the only time when the moon's shadow can hit the Earth's surface.

What really happens during an eclipse?

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After Eclipse, you can read Breaking Dawn, the 4th book to the saga, and supposedly the last. First part is a long descriptive summary. Second part at the bottom is a simple bullet pointed summary with alot less words to read.

Descriptive and long summary of Breaking Dawn (WARNING: I summarized just about everything. So if you want to be surprised while reading Breaking Dawn, I suggest you DONT read this. But if you want to know just about everything, read it.):

In Breaking Dawn, Bella Swan encounters a series of events. Her and Edward's wedding finally play out and Bella get's her final human demand. (sex with Edward) After spending their honeymoon together on Isle Esme, Bella discovers that after a few sexual intercorses with Edward, she is pregnant! But, how can a baby already be showing on Bella's stomach? They rush home to Forks, Washington only to find that the baby is half vampire. He or she starts sucking the life of Bella away one day at a time. Edward suffers the suspense of not knowing when the baby will finally be ready to survive on it's own, and how to exit the mothers body is not described pleasantly. Although Carlisle could easily remove the baby without inflicting any harm to Bella, she refuses repeatedly. She believes that she will survive labor, even when the baby will tear it's way through her stomach to be free. She becomes very weak and unable to provide food for herself, it seems as if the baby won't allow any of it into it's stomach. They discover that if Bella drinks blood, she can get the nutrients she needs in order to survive. Like Bella, she accidentaly spills the cup of blood and automatically reaches to catch it. Not a good move. When she had reached to save the bright red liquid from staining the white carpet, the placenta detatched, resulting in a suffocating baby. Bella goes into complete shock as the blood she had forced down began to come back up. Thankfully, Edward successfully retreaves the baby (a baby girl named Renesmee). But, saving Bella from dying is a whole new matter. He quickly fills her veins with vampire venom and morphine. Bella narrates a descriptive chapter of how badly the fire burned inside her as she desperately tried to hang onto dear life like she had promised them. The venom saves her as she wakes up as a beautiful vampire. She learns the basics of becoming a vampire, resisting the urge to drink Charlie's blood when he comes over to visit. But, something rare for a vampire which Bella holds, is how she can act like a three hundred year old vampire. (Not being crazy for blood like a new born) She can easily distract herself from something, such as killing humans. After a while, she receives a message that the Volturi, the entire guard including the wives, are coming to investigate the new baby. Before the Volturi can kill Nessie, Alice shows up after running away earlier in the story, preventing the death of Nessie. Finally, Edward and Bella and Nessie can all enjoy their small, but perfect piece of their forever.

Short and sweet summary of Breaking Dawn:

*Edward and Bella get married

*Bella gets pregnant during her honeymoon with a half human half vampire baby

*They save Bella before Renesmee can kill her during labor

*Bella is transformed into a vampire

*Volturi come to kill Nessie

*Alice and Bella both save them all from being killed

*They all live happily ever after

THE END

don't ruin the book for me, anyway to have to read to the short second life of bree tanner first it's so cool

What causes a solar eclipse to be annular?

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The Moon's distance from the Earth can vary. This is because the Moon orbits the Earth in an ellipsoid manner, with the Earth at one of the foci.

On this ellipsoid the Moon can be nearer to, or further away from the Earth.

When all objects are further away from the observer, they appear to be smaller. Hence fir an annular eclipse the Moon is further away, therefore it appears smaller and allows a 'ring' of solar light around the black lunar disc.

When the Moon is nearer the Earth you have a Total Solar Eclipse, where at best you only see the corona.

NB the word 'foci' is the plural of the noun 'focus'. 'Focuses' is the verb. An ellipse has two foci. The Earth being at one of the foci, the other being a 'blind' foci.

The word 'foci' is pronounced as 'foe-s-eye'. the 'c' is soft and pronounced like an 's'.

What phase of the moon is there a solar eclipse?

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A Solar Eclipse can only occur at a NEW MOON.

Similarly a Lunar Eclipse can only occur at a FULL MOON.

What does the term corona mean?

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The word 'corona' means 'crown'. The source of the word is Latin'.

Similarly words using this root are 'Coronation' and 'Coronet'.

However, the word , corona, generally refers to the 'crown' of light seen around the Sun during a Solar Eclipse.

Can Saturn have a Solar eclipse?

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If you mean does it experience solar eclipses like we do with our moon, then no. It has no moons to pass in front of the sun and if it did it would have to be much larger or closer than our to have the same effect.

What is totality in a total solar eclipse?

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Begins in the North Atlantic 186 miles south of Nova Scotia and quickly traverses the ocean. Southern England enjoys first landfall in Cornwall and parts of Devon. The path then crosses the English Channel and swings through northern France. Passing 12.5 miles north of Paris, the City of Lights will be darkened by an eclipse of magnitude 0.994.

What is the only visible thing on the sun during a solar eclipse?

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the corona

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Which isn't exactly true, or at least, not any longer. The spooky, glowing halo around the Sun during a total eclipse seems bright only in comparison to the blackness of space; compared to the brilliance of the Sun itself, the corona is almost nothing. But because scientists wanted to study the solar corona and solar eclipses are very short and happen at difficult-to-get-to locations, they wanted a way to create an artificial eclipse so they could study it all the time.

This was the inspiration for the coronagraph, a special telescope that blots out the disk of the Sun itself and allows astronomers to examine the corona whenever they like.

Why does it become darker in a solar eclipse?

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November 4, 2003: Step outside on a sunny day, look down and examine your shadow. It's dark in the middle, pale and fuzzy around the edges, and it always points away from the sun. Although we seldom see it, Earth has a shadow, too, much like your own: dark inside, pale outside, pointing away from the sun. Way away. Earth's shadow stretches almost a million miles into space, far enough to reach the moon. On Saturday, Nov. 8th, the full moon will glide through our planet's shadow. Observers on every continent except Australia can see the event, which astronomers call a lunar eclipse.

Sign up for EXPRESS SCIENCE NEWS delivery Right: Frank Reddy of Celestial Delights created this animation of the upcoming lunar eclipse. Sky watchers will first notice a shadowy darkness creeping over the moon's northeastern limb at 23:32 Universal Time (UT) on Nov. 8th. Watching Earth's shadow sweep across the moon's terrain is fun. Even better is totality, when the entire moon is covered in shadow. Totality begins at 01:06 UT on Nov. 9th and lasts for 25 minutes. (Note: the table below converts UT to US standard time zones.) The totally eclipsed moon won't be totally dark--and that's what makes totality delightful. Earth's atmosphere bends sunlight into our planet's shadow and onto the moon. This sunlight is reddened as it travels a great distance through our dusty atmosphere, and so the moon looks red. Sunsets on Earth look red for the same reason. Nov. 8, 2003, Lunar Eclipse Schedule Moon enters

Earth's shadow totality

begins totality

endsMoon exits

Earth's shadowUniversal Time23:3201:06 (Nov. 9) 01:31 (Nov. 9) 03:04 (Nov. 9) Eastern Time 06:32 p.m. 08:06 p.m. 08:31 p.m. 10:04 p.m. Central Time 05:32 p.m. 07:06 p.m.07:31 p.m.9:04 p.m.Mountain Time04:32 p.m.06:06 p.m.06:31 p.m.8:04 p.m.Pacific Time03:32 p.m.05:06 p.m.05:31 p.m.7:04 p.m.Alaska Time02:32 p.m.04:06 p.m.04:31 p.m.6:04 p.m.Hawaii Time01:32 p.m.03:06 p.m.03:31 p.m.5:04 p.m. Above: Times printed in light gray denote events that happen before local moonrise, which on Nov. 8th will be between 4:45 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. for most observers. So, e.g., almost none of the eclipse will be visible from Hawaii; all of it will be visible from the Eastern time zone. This is the second lunar eclipse of 2003. Observers of the first one in May might remember that the moon was nearly invisible during totality. This eclipse will be different. During totality on Nov. 8/9th the moon will remain relatively bright, and there will be a pleasing gradient of color across the face of the moon--pale-white on one side, crimson-red on the other. Why the difference? It has to do with the structure of Earth's shadow and where the moon glides through it. Earth's shadow is shaped like a cone with two parts. The umbra (on the inside) is dark while the penumbra (on the outside) is pale. Remember your personal shadow? It has these parts, too. The umbra is where the sun's light is completely blocked. The penumbra, that pale fringe around the umbra, is where the sun's light is only partially blocked. Lunar eclipses are considered total when the moon passes completely into Earth's umbral shadow. In May 2003 the moon passed close to the middle of the umbra. The eclipse was therefore long (52 minutes of totality) and dark. In November 2003 the moon will merely skim the umbra, producing an eclipse that's shorter (25 minutes of totality) and brighter. Right: Earth's cone-shaped shadow and the moon's path through it on Nov. 8th and 9th, 2003. [more] The total phase on Nov. 9th lasts from 01:06 UT until 01:31 UT. Then Earth's shadow will begin to recede, and by 03:04 UT it will all be over, the shadow gone, the glaring full moon back to normal. People in Europe and western Africa will be able to watch the entire eclipse. For them it occurs while the moon is high in the night sky. North Americans near the Atlantic Ocean will also have a splendid view. North Americans on the Pacific side of the continent, however, are going to see just the last half of the event; the first half happens before moonrise. Even half an eclipse is worth watching, though. And just in case you're wondering what this lunar eclipse might look like from the moon, read the short science fiction story "Lunar Eclipse 2105" from Science@NASA

Why are solar eclipses not seen as often as lunar eclipses?

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The moon's orbit around earth is slightly tilted, which means that it will take a long time for the sun, earth, and moon to be pefectly aligned for a solar eclipse because the moon is smaller than the earth.however, the earth is bigger than the moon so it has more of a chance to cover the moon.

When is the next solar eclipse NY?

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The next total solar eclipse visible in New York State will be on April 8, 2024. The path of totality covers the northern edge of the state.

A solar eclipse can only happen during a new moon?

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That is because the Moon has to be between the Sun and the Earth, to cover the Sun from our point of view. When this happens, we see the dark side of the Moon - i.e., it is new moon.

That is because the Moon has to be between the Sun and the Earth, to cover the Sun from our point of view. When this happens, we see the dark side of the Moon - i.e., it is new moon.

That is because the Moon has to be between the Sun and the Earth, to cover the Sun from our point of view. When this happens, we see the dark side of the Moon - i.e., it is new moon.

That is because the Moon has to be between the Sun and the Earth, to cover the Sun from our point of view. When this happens, we see the dark side of the Moon - i.e., it is new moon.

How often does a total solar eclipse occur?

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Every 360 years.