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Bulan (meaning "elk" [1] or "hart" in Old Turkic) was a Khazar ruler, and the founder of the Bulanid dynasty. He is usually identified as being the same with Sabriel , the king who led the khazar conversion to Judaism , and thus he is sometimes referred to as Bulan Sabriel.
It was seen during the Fall of Constantinople (the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire), during the siege that lasted from Thursday, 5 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453), after which the city fell to the Ottomans.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]
An ESA radio telescope located at the New Norcia Station, Western Australia, tracking the "super blue moon" of August 30, 2023. The blue colour is an effect of the camera. [1]
The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, also known as the Great North American Eclipse, [1] [2] was a total solar eclipse visible across a band covering parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada and crossing the contiguous United States.
Finding Greenwich time while at sea using a lunar distance. The lunar distance is the angle between the Moon and a star (or the Sun). In the above illustration the star Regulus is used.
A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.0869. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened.
Visual conjunction between the Moon and the planet Venus, the two brightest objects in the night sky. In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky.