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    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...
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    during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. In a total eclipse, the disk of...
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    causing the Moon to be darkened. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the...
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    special cases of solar and lunar eclipses, these only happen during an "eclipse season", the two times of each year when the plane of the Earth's orbit around...
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  • Thumbnail for Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
    The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, also known as the Great North American Eclipse, was a total solar eclipse visible across a band covering parts of...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, two days past perigee, in parts of North America...
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    The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the "Great American Eclipse" by some media, was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the...
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    224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses. Of these...
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    eclipse this season. Second eclipse this season: 24 April 2005 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse A hybrid solar eclipse on April 8. A penumbral lunar eclipse on...
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    Eclipses may occur repeatedly, separated by certain intervals of time: these intervals are called eclipse cycles. The series of eclipses separated by a...
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    An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur over much of the central Eastern Hemisphere on Monday, August 2, 2027. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between...
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    A partial solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, March 29, 2025. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally...
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  • Thumbnail for Eclipses in mythology and culture
    Eclipses of the Sun and of the Moon have been described by nearly every culture. In cultures without an astronomical explanation, eclipses were often attributed...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, July 22, 2028. The central line of the path of the eclipse will cross the Australian continent from the Kimberley...
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    the second eclipse for the mid-2009 eclipse season, with the first having been the July 2009 lunar eclipse. The third eclipse of the season was the August...
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    Muhammad's eclipse was an annular solar eclipse that occurred on January 27, 632, and was visible across parts of East Africa, North Africa, the Middle...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, August 12, 2045, when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the...
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  • This is a list of solar eclipses in the 20th century. During the period 1901 to 2000 there were 228 solar eclipses of which 78 were partial, 73 were annular...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur on Monday, August 22, 2044 (August 23 for most of the eclipse by UTC timing). A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes...
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    and annular solar eclipses. Although caused by the same phenomenon, they are distinct events during these types of solar eclipses. As the Moon covers...
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    eclipse of Saros cycle 129. This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: Partial solar eclipse of July 23, 2036 Third eclipse this...
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    This is an incomplete list of solar eclipses visible from the United States between 1901 and 2100. All eclipses whose path of totality or annularity passes...
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  • Saros (astronomy) (category Eclipses)
    999 eclipse years (38 eclipse seasons) 238.992 anomalistic months 241.029 sidereal months The 19 eclipse years means that if there is a solar eclipse (or...
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    A total solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, March 7, 1970, visible across most of North America and Central America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon...
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    at dawn. Mid Eclipse was visible during moonset in Eastern Australia. This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: 19 April 2004...
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    A total solar eclipse occurred on 11 August 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.0286. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the...
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    eclipse this season. Second eclipse this season: 17 October 2005 Partial Lunar Eclipse A hybrid solar eclipse on April 8. A penumbral lunar eclipse on...
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    surface. The solar eclipse of 21 August 2017, occurred fourteen days later, in the same eclipse season (Middle of the eclipse season occurred on 16 August...
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    Lunar Eclipse of 9 February 2009. This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: 26 January 2009 Annular Solar Eclipse The eclipse was...
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