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An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, [1] with a magnitude of 0.9326. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
Ten-minute time lapse video of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. The eclipse of April 8, 2024, being projected through the leaves of a tree in Puebla, Mexico. Totality first passed over the Revillagigedo Islands (a federal possession of Mexico and associated with Colima state) and Islas Marías of Nayarit.
The eclipse of May 20, 2050, will be the second hybrid eclipse in the span of less than one year, the first one being on November 25, 2049. [a] The table contains the date and time of the greatest eclipse (in dynamical time , which in this case is the time when the axis of the Moon's shadow cone passes closest to the centre of Earth; this is in ...
By time period of history. Pre-Modern. List of solar eclipses in antiquity ... This page was last edited on 12 August 2024, at 03:35 (UTC).
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]
When the asura named Rahu attempted to pose as a deva to receive amṛtam, the nectar of eternal life, Surya and Chandra, the deities of the Sun and the Moon, alerted Mohini, the incarnation of Vishnu. Mohini promptly employed her discus to behead the asura, but he had already partaken the nectar, and had become immortal. Rahu's head was exiled ...
In the 20th century, the greatest number of eclipses in one year is five, in 1935, though the years 1917, 1946, 1964, 1982 and 2000 had four eclipses each. One month, July 2000, featured two solar eclipses, on July 1 and July 31. The predictions given here are by Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. [1]
Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024 to 2027 Descending node Ascending node Saros Date Viewing Type Chart Gamma Saros Date Viewing Type Chart Gamma 113: 2024 Mar 25: Penumbral: 1.0610 118: 2024 Sep 18: Partial: −0.9792 123 2025 Mar 14: Total: 0.3485 128 2025 Sep 07: Total: −0.2752 133 2026 Mar 03: Total: −0.3765 138 2026 Aug 28: Partial: 0 ...