Solar and Lunar Eclipes

The moon is by far the biggest and most easily recognizable object in earth’s atmosphere that can be perceived by the naked eye on a cloudless night. It is hypothesized that it came into existence nearly 4.5 billion years ago, from residual debris after a planetary body collided with earth. Although, considered the runner-up to the sun as the second brightest object in the sky, its illumination is deceitful, insomuch as the moon is not a source of light, but instead reflects the sun’s illumination from the half of the moon that is in direct alignment with the sun at that time. More readily identified as a satellite of the earth rather than as a planet itself or even a star, it has a diameter a quarter of the size of earth’s size and it

In the diagram below the sun's light is coming in from the right. The moon's location is marked at several points on its orbit. These are the points the moon was at when the sketches above were drawn. Identify each position with the letter of the corresponding sketch.

between light and shadow) from the north pole to the south pole of the moon. This is how the moon would be seen if it were on the observer’s meridian. We can use the drawing above to determine the amount of illumination and whether it is on the left or right hand side of the moon. Use the drawing above to draw the appearance of the moon in the box below.

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Waxing Crescent: Less than one half of the Moon is illuminated by direct sunlight and it is slowly getting larger.

In the article Lunar Eclipses: What are They & When is the Next One, Robert Roy Britt explains the causation and the nature of these celestial bodies. A lunar eclipse appears when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun. Appearing only on a night of a full moon, a lunar eclipse is formed when the Earth blocks any direct sunlight from reaching the moon. And this can only happen when the Sun, Earth and the Moon are aligned to form a straight line, generally referred to as a syzygy. A total lunar eclipse can only occur when these celestial objects are perfectly in line, however, anything less than perfection creates a partial or penumbral lunar eclipse. Robert Roy Britt also concludes in his article the 3 different types of lunar eclipses; total lunar eclipse, partial lunar eclipse, and penumbral lunar eclipse. People are very fond of these lunar eclipses;

The moon is the planet Earth’s only natural satellite and is one of the largest in the Solar System. This natural satellite was not formed long after Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The gravitational forces continue to keep the moon in orbit of Earth. Even though it appears so, the moon does not physically produce light but it does reflect light from the sun (which is why we are able to see it). It takes our Moon 27.3 days to completely cycle through the Lunar month, which has eight phases. Through these different phases we see it lit from different angles and this depends upon the position of the Moon in its orbit. These phases include; the new moon, waning crescent, third quarter, waning gibbous, full moon, waxing gibbous, first quarter, waxing crescent and this process repeats.

“Idle fears and gloomy forebodings of evil formerly raised by the appearance of phenomena caused by the regular operation of natural laws.” (Masur, 4) There have been many beliefs contributed into the analyzation of what an eclipse signifies. Some have taken the opinion towards a sign and token for the displeasures of God towards a failing nation. It was the vague fear of an upcoming danger from a reaching catastrophe. February 12, 1831, marked the time that whom believed the eclipse as a metaphor towards the prophecy to come. In theory, it was the cause for this was justified from the sins of a nation and the depravity of its morals that continued this into a further discussion.

Ancient people watched the Moon each night and learned to predict its phases and movements. The first person to correctly explain the phases of the Moon is unknown. The time, Pythagoras wrote in 600 B.C., the ancient Greeks knew that the Moon revolves around the Earth and that it is spherical. Greeks knew that motion causes the monthly changes in the Moon’s appearance, they also knew the Moon’s distance from the Earth and had a good measurement of the Moon’s relative size. Our goal of our investigation was to determine what causes this pattern and then develop a model that explains why we see this pattern. OUr guiding question was “What causes the phases of the Moon?”.

Because they where trying to say that their clients has no accountability of there actions during the full moon. This is where they come up with the “Lunar Defense”. Also another study was conducted by the University of New Orleans in 1995 there studied showed that many people in the hospital and the task force believed that many more traumas and crimes occurred during the full moon. On the other hand a publisher by the name of Eric Chudler who published a book by the name of Bad Moon Rising. Chudler had published that the research that was taken did not show that there was a change in violent or aggressive crimes during a full moon. The University of Washington also conducted a study on how crimes and violence may be affected by a full. There studies showed that 11,613 cases of aggravated assault out of that number many more of these cases occur during a full moon. Also that 34,318 crimes that has happened in a year span has occurred during a full

The Moon can experience partial and total eclipses but it is impossible for the Moon to experience an annular eclipse. When light hits an object it casts a shadow. Shadows vary in size based on the distance relative to the observer and size of an object. The center of some shadows are darker this is called the umbra. Umbras get smaller as you move away from the object. An antumbra starts at the end of an umbra shadow. The antumbra is lighter than the umbra shadow. Antumbras get bigger as you move away from the object. The edges of a shadow are often lighter; this is called the penumbra. Penumbras get bigger as you move away from the object as well. Essentially the closer an object is the bigger it appears which means more light gets blocked

Through thousands of year, patiently watching the movements of the Sun and Moon in the sky, ancient astronomers realized eclipses happen when the moon passed directly in front of the Sun. For the solar eclipse to work though, of course, the moon has to be big enough to block out the sun. In reality, the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun but in a fantastic cosmic. However, from our point of view, the moon is almost exactly the same size as the sun in the sky and this means it will line up and it will completely block the disc of the sun. If the moon is the smaller or any further

Solar eclipses provide a unique opportunity to observe the sun itself owing to the moon providing a clear view of the solar chromosphere. Observations of the sun during a solar eclipse lead to a variety of discoveries ranging from the discovery of elements to a deeper understanding of solar activities such as coronal mass ejections. The use of equipment in new ways allows scientists to make previously unimaginable discoveries as Pierre Jansen discovered in 1868 while observing the sun. With the knowledge of atomic emission spectroscopy and new instruments Pierre Jansen “observed the spectrum of the chromosphere that was briefly visible at the beginning and at the end of totality”and “saw a bright yellow emission line”(Pasachoff, 2009). After further observation without an eclipse he and Norman Lockyer independently confirmed that this line indicated the presence of a new element named helium. Observations of this nature can produce false positives as was the case for coronium. From solar observation green, red, and “several fainter emission lines”(Pasachoff, 2009) were observed and attributed to an element named coronium. The existence of such an element was later disproved when it was discovered that these lines came from “highly ionized states of iron, calcium and nickel”(an astro…). Solar observation during an eclipse can also give insight to solar phenomena such as coronal mass ejections, also known as CMEs. CEMs are “billion-ton clouds of magnetized plasma ejected from

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon completely covers the Sun 's disk, as seen in this 1999 solar eclipse. Solar prominences can be seen along the limb (in red) as well as extensive coronal filaments.

The first contact occurs when the Moon 's disc first starts to impinge on the Sun 's; second contact is when the Moon 's disc moves completely within the Sun 's; third contact when it starts to move out of the Sun 's; and fourth or last contact when it finally leaves the