Solar and Lunar Eclipses

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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. sun-earth-moon

2. sun-moon-earth

3. DAY, NIGHT

4. full

5. new

6. 29.5, synodic

7. 27.3, sidereal

8. revolution around the sun which necessitates additional time above the orbital period to facilitate the same alignment.

9. solar

10. umbra, penumbra

11. umbra, penumbra

12. black, reddish

13. corona

14. seven

15. two, two

ECLIPSE TYPES

16. total, partial, annular

17. total, partial, penumbral

18. total solar eclipse

19. annular

20. total lunar eclipse

21. penumbral eclipse

22. partial solar eclipse

23. partial lunar eclipse

24. total, annular

25. total solar eclipse

PREDICTING ECLIPSES

26. ellipse

27. the earth changes its distance from the sun. the moon changes its distance from the earth.

28. 239,000 miles (384,00 km)

29. 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 km)

30. perihelion

31. apogee

32. perigee

33. aphelion

34. major axis (line of apsides)

35. closest, slowest

36. GREATER

37. same, ½

38. larger, smaller

39. moon

40. WILL NOT

41. annular

42. earth's diameter

43. central solar eclipses

44. More than half of the earth is exposed to the lunar eclipse, while the path (area) of a total solar eclipse is very limited.

45. ecliptic

46. in the plane of the ecliptic.

47. plane

48. five degrees

49. nodes

50. ascending node, descending node

51. no eclipse will take place

52. the moon is new or full, the moon is at or near a node

53. 18.6, regression

54. westward, sidereal or revolutionary

55. SHORTER

56. 27.3, 27.2

57. synodic, days

58. two, two, more than one cycle occurring simultaneously

59. similar

60. moon

61. a. the moon must be new or full
b. the moon must be at or near a node
c. the moon must be at the same distance from the earth

62. total solar

63. MAY NOT

64. changing, elliptical, line of apsides

65. revolution of the apsides of the moon

66. anomalistic

67. LONGER

68. 27.6, 27.3

69. synodic, nodical, anomalistic

70. saros

71. March 17, 1988, March 18, 1988

DURATION OF A SOLAR ECLIPSE

72. west, east, east, THE SAME

73. poles, equator

74. equator (in actuality the position lies between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer)

75. a. moon at perigee
b. earth at aphelion
c. eclipse path crosses (a little to the north of) the equator (at noon)

76. location

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

77. the approaching lunar disk first makes contact with the sun

78. totality begins

79. totality ends

80. the lunar disk leaves the disk of the sun

81. second and third

82. diamond ring

83. the approaching lunar disk is tangent to earth's umbra

84. totality begins

85. totality ends

86. the receding lunar disk is tangent to the earth's umbra

87. first, fourth

88. May 15, 2003