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Acyuta Piṣāraṭi (also Achyuta Pisharati or Achyutha Pisharadi) (c. 1550 at Thrikkandiyur (aka Kundapura), Tirur, Kerala, India – 7 July 1621 in Kerala) was a Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician who studied under Jyeṣṭhadeva and was a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
The astronomers Mayank Vahia and Misturu Soma have identified the date of the solar eclipse as on 22 October 4202 BC or on 19 October 3811 BC. [4] The astronomers have also claimed that the story of the Atri's Eclipse is different and older from the general stories of Rahu and Ketu for the eclipses in the Hindu mythology.
Numerous interactions with the Mauryan Empire, and the later expansion of the Indo-Greeks into India suggest that transmission of Greek astronomical ideas to India occurred during this period. [45] The Greek concept of a spherical Earth surrounded by the spheres of planets, further influenced the astronomers like Varahamihira and Brahmagupta ...
Instead of the prevailing cosmogony in which eclipses were caused by Rahu and Ketu (identified as the pseudo-planetary lunar nodes), he explains eclipses in terms of shadows cast by and falling on Earth. Thus, the lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon enters into the Earth's shadow (verse gola.37).
For six minutes, the longest eclipse since 1416, the Moon would completely block the face of the Sun, pulling a curtain of darkness over a thin stripe of Earth.
The eclipse begins at 6:25p.m. EST, and the total eclipse starts at 7:34 p.m. EST. Total solar eclipses can inspire a certain amount of awe, but they're nothing to be scared of.
Earth is going to get to witness a total solar eclipse on August 21st. But we aren't the only planet that gets to see the rare happening. Live Science says there are two important factors needed ...
Although mutual occultations of planets had been recorded in 581, [1] 1170, [2] 1590, [3] and 1737, [4] the first attempt to list past and future occultations of that nature was not made until 1970 during a manual search for conjunctions, in which Jan Meeus and Michael Walch discovered further occultations in 1522 [a] and 1570, [b] published in ...