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  2. Eclipse cycle - Wikipedia

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    Eclipse cycles have a period in which a certain number of synodic months closely equals an integer or half-integer number of draconic months: one such period after an eclipse, a syzygy (new moon or full moon) takes place again near a node of the Moon's orbit on the ecliptic, and an eclipse can occur again. However, the synodic and draconic ...

  3. Eclipse season - Wikipedia

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    An eclipse season is a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Moon's orbital plane (tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane), just as Earth's weather seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted axis as it orbits around the Sun.

  4. Hipparchic cycle - Wikipedia

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    An eclipse cycle constructed by Hipparchus is described in Ptolemy's Almagest IV.2: . For from the observations he set out he [Hipparchus] shows that the smallest constant interval defining an ecliptic period in which the number of months and the amount of [lunar] motion is always the same, is 126007 days plus 1 equinoctial hour.

  5. Why the 2024 eclipse will be a different experience from 2017

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    The total solar eclipse occurring on April 8 is expected to trace a wider ... April’s eclipse will also have longer period of totality than 2017 because of the moon’s proximity to Earth ...

  6. Lunar eclipse vs. solar eclipse: What's the difference ...

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    The rarity of today's event has many curious about the nature of eclipses and the difference between the two kinds.

  7. Saros (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    18.999 eclipse years (38 eclipse seasons of 173.31 days) 238.992 anomalistic months; 241.029 sidereal months; The 19 eclipse years means that if there is a solar eclipse (or lunar eclipse), then after one saros a new moon will take place at the same node of the orbit of the Moon, and under these circumstances another solar eclipse can occur.

  8. Eclipse - Wikipedia

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    A "deep eclipse" (or "deep occultation") is when a small astronomical object is behind a bigger one. [2] [3] The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond ...

  9. How will Monday's solar eclipse affect zodiac signs? Here's ...

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    Solar eclipse weather: 'Partial visibility': Clouds remain in Texas weather forecast for solar eclipse, NWS says The predicted cloud coverage at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 8, 2024, when the solar ...