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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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Can the solar eclipse make you blind?
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well it is certainly not very good for your eyeballs but you might not go blind
Unfortunately, the answer is "Yes, unless...". The "unless" is, if you have good eye protection. Welder's glasses, for example. And most planetariums and science stores have "eclipse glasses" which filter out about 99.5% of the Sun's light, which just about right.
What would have to happen for a lunar and solar eclipse to happen every month?
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First, you have to understand that the Moon has a tilt in its orbit. Its tilt is large enough to miss the Earth's shadow or the Sun's main stream of light. The Moon has to remove its orbital tilt for solar and lunar eclipses to happen every month. But eventually, the Moon will be far enough that it does not block enough sunlight for a solar eclipse to occur (this is because the moon is moving away from Earth because it orbits the Earth slower than the Earth rotates).
What time will the total solar eclipse be seen over Texas?
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The total or annalar eclipse will began at 8:39pm par. Will began after 7 and it will end at sun set
The duration of a solar eclipse?
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I believe that it is effected by the equinox. Because the sun appears to move faster across our sky's in the winter or slower in the summer this might be the main cause of why a solar eclipse might differ in time. The moons distance from the earth also differs and this may also affect the rate of time that a lunar or solar eclipse occurs.
Does solar eclipse affect the electronics?
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YES . THE NEXT TIME THERE IS A SOLOR ECLIPSE
ALL ELECTRONICS ON EARTH WILL CRASH.!!!!!
no! only solar winds/storms affect electronics
Why is a solar eclipse rare?
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Total eclipses are considered rare events although they happen on average every 18 months somewhere in the world. The probability of one reoccurring in the same place is something like 370 years.
What is the only lunar phase during which a solar eclipse can occur?
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Solar eclipses happen during NEW moons, when the Moon blocks the light of the Sun.
Lunar eclipses happen during FULL moons, when the Earth blocks the light of the Sun.
Who made faries?
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Well, I know one of them, but I don't know it properly, it's that God closed the gates of Heaven for some reason , the people in Heaven became Angels, the people who were outside of Heaven became fairies, and for some reason, for that matter they "Pay a Tithe to Hell."
Go on Wikipedia, and put in "fairies" if you want the proper story.
Can you explain lunar and solar eclipses?
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- A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth.
- A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon.
When was the last solar eclipse in Pakistan?
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According to the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the eclipse will start at 5:46 Pakistan Standard Time (PST) with the total eclipse beginning at 7:06 pm.
At 7:32 pm, the moon will be completely under the earth's shadow and remain there for around 50 minutes before coming to an end by 9:18 pm.
Why are there so few lunar and solar eclipses?
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Two things prevent that from happening every year. One, the Moon's orbital plane is tilted about 5 degrees from the ecliptic, which is the path of Earth's orbit. Think of two concentric circles, with one tilted slightly so that the circles touch each other at only two points on opposite sides. So, for a lunar eclipse to occur the Moon has to be at (or very close to) either of the two nodes (the points where the ecliptic and the Moon's orbit coincide), while at the same time, the Sun has to be on the opposite side to produce the Earth's shadow that eclipses the Moon. On top of that, (the second thing), the Moon's orbital circle shifts every year so that the two nodes rotate around the ecliptic about every 19 years. Every year, the Moon's intersection with the ecliptic is shifted about 18 degrees, so from one year to the next, the Moon is in a different place.
Is there going to be a solar eclipse in may 2011?
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No. The next solar eclipse will be a partial solar eclipse on June 1, 2011.
How long does an entire solar eclipse last?
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Lunar Eclipses:
The time of a total lunar eclipse can last an hour or more, with the partial phases adding as much as another two to three hours. For example, the total eclipse of the Moon on Feb. 20-21, 2008, lasted a little less than three and a half hours from the beginning of the partial phase, through the totality, to the end of the partial phase. Totality in this case was about 50 minutes.
The duration depends on whether the Moon passes through the center of the Earth's shadow, and the distance between the Moon and Earth at the time (which affects the size of Earth's shadow). Lunar eclipses are more frequently seen because everyone on the night time half of the Earth are in position to view a lunar eclipse.
Solar Eclipses:
For a solar eclipse, the maximum theoretical duration is 7 minutes, 40 seconds (some believe 7 minutes, 31 seconds), but in any case, the maximum duration can only occur, or be observed at the equator.
The partial phases add considerably more time, so that the entire eclipse, seen from any given location, can last several hours. However, the partial phases of a total solar eclipse are much less noticeable to the ordinary observer, and might be missed entirely.
Related information:
Total solar eclipses from any given location are more rare than total lunar eclipses (about once every 360 years, on average) because observers must be located along a specific path on the Earth (where the Moon's shadow falls).
There were two solar eclipses in 2008, and two in 2009. Far fewer people in general will view solar eclipses than the lunar eclipses due to the restrictions mentioned above.
The shortest total solar eclipse for the period, 2,000 BCE to 3,000 CE was in the year 919 CE. It lasted for 9 seconds.
The rate of occurrence for total eclipses of 7 minutes or longer, is 10 per millennium, or an average of one for every 100 years. The last occurred 6/20/1955 (7 minutes, 8 seconds). The next, 231 years from the last, will occur 7/16/2186 and have a duration of (7 minutes, 29 seconds). This will be the longest, stationary observation of a total solar eclipse.
What happens to the ocean during a solar eclipse?
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During a lunar eclipse, the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, the Sun will tend to cancel some of the effect that the Moon has on the earth, but you can still expect high tide to occur during a lunar eclipse, but it will be slightly less than if the Sun were not on the opposite side of the Earth.
How did solar eclipse take place?
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the eclipse starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern ___________________ Earth's experience of the solar eclipse is a happy coincidence of history. It just happens that we have a moon of the right size and favorable orbit. It will not always be so. In future ages, the moon will no longer be able to give us 'total' eclipses, because it is very slowly moving farther away from earth. At some point it will be too far to completely cover the face of the sun.
What is the visible portion of the sun during an eclipse?
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The corona, which is the sun's plasma 'atmosphere'.
What happens to the sun moon and earth during a solar eclipse?
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During a solar eclipse, the moon comes between the sun and the earth, blocking view of the sun from some parts of the earth by casting its shadow. The longest this lasts in any one place on the earth's surface is about 6 minutes, but the alignment of sun, moon and earth that throws the moon's shadow on the earth can last for several hours while the shadow moves across the earth's surface.
Adjacent to those places where the sun's disk is totally blocked, where the eclipse is said to be total, there is a wider zone where the sun is never totally blocked, and there the eclipse is said to be partial. Even in places where the eclipse is eventually total, there are times before and after totality when the eclipse is partial.
While it is safe to look directly at a total solar eclipse, which is a very spectacular event, care must be taken to avoid looking directly at a partial solar eclipse. The portion of the sun that is not blocked by the moon during a partial eclipse is so bright that, even though it may not be painful, it can burn the retina (light-sensing cells in the back of your eyeball) literally before you can blink. Depending on severity, such burns can take months to heal, or can be permanent, resulting in vision defects or blindness.
Solar eclipses are rare in any one place, but occur somewhere in the world, generally twice every year. (See the catalog of all solar eclipses from 2000 BCE to 3000 AD on the NASA Eclipse Web Page, linked below.)
Indirect viewing of a partial solar eclipse can be accomplished by using a telescope or binoculars to project the sun's image on a screen, or by using a pinhole camera projector. NEVER view the sun directly through a telescope or binoculars unless you have a proper solar filter attached . Exposed film is inadequate and should never be used. Most welders goggles are also insufficient.
2 types of eclipse?
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The other eclipse is a solar eclipse which is in frount of the earth blocking the sun
When can you see a total solar eclipse?
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A solar eclipse happens at New Moon when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. The Moon is not big enough to eclipse the whole of the Earth so the eclipse is seen only over a strip of the Earth's surface.
The Moon's orbit is inclined to that of the Earth, and usually at New Moon the Moon passes above or below the Sun as seen from the Earth.
When the Moon is at a node, that means that it is crossing the plane of the Earth's orbit, an eclipse can occur if that coincides with New Moon, because then all three are all in a line.
The same applied to lunar eclipses at Full Moon, except that a lunar eclipse can be seen from the whole dark side of the Earth. This makes lunar eclipses seem more frequent.
A solar eclipse on the Earth, seen from the Moon, looks like a circular area of shadow on the Earth's surface with a tiny black dot at the centre, which is the point of total eclipse, a moving circle of about 20-40 miles across. Anyone in that dot is seeing a total eclipse.
Explain why a total solar eclipse or total lunar eclipse does not occur at least once a month?
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We don't get a lunar eclipse (earth obscuring the sun to the moon) or a solar eclipse (moon obscuring the sun to earth) every month, since the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth is not exact enough. The moon sun and earth are not on the exact same plane, so most of the time when the moon passes in front of the sun, it is either too low or too high to cause a solar eclipse. Similar story with the moon passing behind the Earth for a lunar Eclipse.
What did the Egyptians of the past think eclipses were?
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that it was either gometric or heliocentric, the Indians are split between both
When was the last solar eclipse to happen in Michigan?
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There will be a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, which will be "coast to coast" of the United States, with the path of totality crossing the entire North American continent from Oregon to South Carolina.
It won't be a total eclipse in Michigan, but it will be a partial eclipse of about 80% totality for most of the state.
Well to calculate when we are going to see the next eclipse, we need a satellite. you can find out when in smart phones and other devices. the satellites will calculate the revolution and find out when is the next eclipse going to happen.
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