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A total solar eclipse is a rare event, recurring somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average, [38] yet is estimated to recur at any given location only every 360–410 years on average. [39] The total eclipse lasts for only a maximum of a few minutes at any location because the Moon's umbra moves eastward at over 1700 km/h (1100 mph; 470 m/s ...
An eclipse does not occur every month, because one month after an eclipse the relative geometry of the Sun, Moon, and Earth has changed. As seen from the Earth, the time it takes for the Moon to return to a node, the draconic month, is less than the time it takes for the Moon to return to the same ecliptic longitude as the Sun: the synodic month.
The saros (/ ˈ s ɛər ɒ s / ⓘ) is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.321 days (18.04 years), or 18 years plus 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
It's finally April 8, 2024, the day of the total solar eclipse.We've waited for this day for years, and we won't have another one like it for decades.. Starting at 2:27 p.m. Eastern time, the ...
A total solar eclipse won’t be visible again from the contiguous US until August 22, 2044, but totality will only occur over North Dakota and Montana, plus northern Canada.
By a cosmic stroke of luck, the moon will make the month's closest approach to Earth the day before the total solar eclipse. That puts the moon just 223,000 miles (360,000 kilometers) away on ...
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 .
Leading up to the total eclipse on April 8, Evansville and surrounding cities are hosting events around the big event. Totality begins in Evansville around 2:02 p.m. and will last until 2:05 p.m ...