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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]
Template: Lists of solar eclipses. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... Geometry of a total solar eclipse (not to scale) Solar eclipses in antiquity;
From 1900 to 2100, the state of Tennessee will have recorded a total of 83 solar eclipses, one of which is an annular eclipse and two of which are total eclipses. The one annular solar eclipse occurred on September 1, 1951. Both of the total solar eclipses occurred on August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024.
A symbolic orbital diagram from the view of the Earth at the center, showing the Moon's two nodes where eclipses can occur. Up to three eclipses may occur during an eclipse season, a one- or two-month period that happens twice a year, around the time when the Sun is near the nodes of the Moon's orbit. An eclipse does not occur every month ...
An eclipse season is the only time when the Sun (from the perspective of the Earth) is close enough to one of the Moon's nodes to allow an eclipse to occur. During the season, whenever there is a full moon a lunar eclipse may occur and whenever there is a new moon a solar eclipse may occur. If the Sun is close enough to a node, then a "full ...
Printable version; Page information; ... Simplistic diagram of solar eclipse: Date: 20 January 2007: Source: Own work: ... Add a one-line explanation of what this ...