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Cat. Saros Mem Date Time UT (hr:mn) Type Gamma Magnitude Duration (min) Contacts UT (hr:mn) Chart Greatest Pen. Par. Tot. P1 P4 U1 U2 U3 U4 08563: 133: 1: 1557 May 13
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Monday, November 30, 2020, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.2602. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's ...
This partial lunar eclipse 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. The lunar eclipse was considered to be fulfilling a prophecy for the city's demise.
Beyond science: 'The eclipse is part of the human experience' For over 25 years Ground has been a professional storyteller. He said what drives his work is a felt responsibility to express how the ...
c. 1100 BC - Chinese first determine the spring equinox. 776 BC - Chinese make the earliest reliable record of a solar eclipse. 613 BC - In July, a Comet, possibly Comet Halley, is recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals (秋七月,有星孛入于北斗).
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The eclipse begins at 6:25p.m. EST, and the total eclipse starts at 7:34 p.m. EST. Total solar eclipses can inspire a certain amount of awe, but they're nothing to be scared of.
French Jesuits observing an eclipse with King Narai and his court in April 1688, shortly before the Siamese revolution. The periodicity of lunar eclipses been deduced by Neo-Babylonian astronomers in the sixth century BCE [6] and the periodicity of solar eclipses was deduced in first century BCE by Greek astronomers, who developed the Antikythera mechanism [7] and had understood the Sun, Moon ...