... Credit: GOES Project , GSFC , NASA Explanation: When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last month, the result was a Solar Eclipse . ... For this eclipse, racing along at nearly 1,200 miles per hour, the Moon's umbra obligingly crossed over land along pleasant tropical locales in South America and the Caribbean islands. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Earth - eclipse . Publications with words: Moon - Earth - eclipse . ... Earth at Twilight . ... Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon . ...

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• The Long Shadow of the Moon
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... Australia?s 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun . ... A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably the most awesome sight in all of nature. Day is suddenly replaced with an eerie twilight and the Sun?s brilliant disk is blocked by the dark Moon. ... This incredible spectacle is visible once every year or two when the Moon?s small dark umbral shadow races across our planet?s surface. The ensuing path of totality is typically about 150 kilometers wide but can stretch halfway around the globe. ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. March 12, 1998 . Moon Shadow . ... Explanation: When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last month, the result was a Solar Eclipse . ... For this eclipse, racing along at nearly 1,200 miles per hour, the Moon's umbra obligingly crossed over land along pleasant tropical locales in South America and the Caribbean islands. ...

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• APOD: 2010 January 22 - Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse
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... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... 1 Comment In July 2015, we will finally have our long-awaited closeup views of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons when NASA?s New Horizons probe flies past the tiny and distant [ ] . ... No Comments As everyone knows on Friday 20 March 2015, a total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Arctic. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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• Viewing the Partial Solar Eclipse of 20 March 2014 | Astronotes
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The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

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• Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko
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Eclipses on Mars . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... They are also much closer to Mars than the Moon is to the Earth. ... These phenomena are particularly sensitive to observer location on the surface. ... In context: The Beagle 2 mission . An experiment of this kind will be attempted early in 2004 by instruments on the Beagle 2 lander. ... It should be noted that Phobos itself can be eclipsed by Mars (a phenomenon analogous to lunar eclipses on Earth) and does so almost every night. ...

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Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

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• APOD: August 30, 1999 - Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
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• FEBRUARY 26th 1998 SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM VENEZUELA

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

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• UBV Photometry of the Massive Eclipsing Binary TT Aur
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... Low Polar Orbit . ... Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. ... Many spacecraft use such orbits, e.g. the US Air Force surveillance satellites of the DMSP series, or the series of French Earth-resources spacecraft SPOT . ... If the satellite then starts near a noon-midnight orbit, it will always pass near noon and near midnight. ...

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• Estimating the Moon's Distance
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... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... The third body in the eclipsing binary AS Cam . Kozyreva, V. S.,Khaliullin, Kh. F.,Zakharov A.I. IBVS(ISSN 0374-0676), N. 4690, p. 1-4. Publication date: 09/1999 . Apsidal motion in the eclipsing binaries V1136 Cyg, ES Lac, MZ Lac, EQ Vul . ... ISSN ), vol. ... Publication date: 03/1998 . ... Publication date: 12/1997 . Apsidal motion in the eclipsing binary system HP Aur . Kozyreva, V. S. Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 165, no. ...