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  2. How to See Rarely-Captured Shadow Bands During the Solar ...

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    Also called shadow snakes, shadow bands are famously difficult to capture on camera or video, though not impossible. ( This video taken in Nashville during the 2017 total solar eclipse is one of ...

  3. Shadow bands - Wikipedia

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    Shadow bands observed during the total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017. The video shows a white sheet (36 x 66 inches, 0.91 x 1.7 meters) laid out on the ground under the sunlight. The shadow bands start faintly, grow dramatically intense as the remaining crescent of sunlight shrinks, and suddenly vanish at the moment of darkness of the total ...

  4. What is an umbra? A penumbra? Here's some terms to know ... - AOL

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    The super blood moon lunar eclipse occurred late in the night of Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, and carried over into early morning Monday. The shadow from Earth, called the penumbra, begins to fall upon ...

  5. These NYT Crossword clues might help you make your eclipse ...

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    Here are the eclipse-themed clues from the April 8 NYT crossword that also might help create your playlist for today (yes, that's a hint).

  6. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    The antumbra (from the Latin ante "before" and umbra "shadow") is the region from which the occluding body appears entirely within the disc of the light source. An observer in this region experiences an annular eclipse, in which a bright ring is visible around the eclipsing body. If the observer moves closer to the light source, the apparent ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Puzzle solutions for Friday, Sept. 27

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    Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers. Puzzle solutions for Friday, Sept. 27 Skip to main content