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...lipse Website |publisher=NASA}}, {{cite web |title=Key to catalog of lunar eclipses |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LEcatkey.html |website=NASA Eclip For a [[lunar eclipse]], it defines whether the axis of the Earth's shadow passes north o ...

A total [[solar eclipse]] occurred at the Moon's [[Lunar node|descending node]] of orbit between Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March ...thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separate ...

...orbit]]—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual [[apparent size]] of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth.<ref name="NYT-20140907">{{cite news |author=Staf ...tance at the greatest [[apogee]] of the year, and <math>ld_p</math> is the lunar distance at the smallest [[perigee]] of the year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http:/ ...

...xts including planetary positions, timekeeping and calendar construction, eclipses, heliacal rising and settings, planetary conjunctions, and the ''mahāpāta'' ...e journal |last1=S. Balachandra Rao, S.K. Uma and Padmaja Venugopal |title=Lunar eclipse computation in Indian astronomy with special reference to ''Grahala ...

...he earth aligns more precisely: a [[List of central lunar eclipses|central lunar eclipse]], of which there were 14 in the 50 years to 2000, others being [[p ...

In [[lunar calendar]]s, a '''lunar month''' is the time between two successive [[Syzygy (astronomy)|syzygies]] [[File:Lunar libration with phase Oct 2007 (continuous loop).gif|thumb|right|Animation o ...

...ly 1411 CE.), ''Grahanavyakhyadipika'' – On the rationale of the theory of eclipses, ''Vakyakarana'' – Methods for the derivation of several astronomical table ...|c. 1650 - 1725 || ''Uparāgapariccheda'' (computation of solar and lunar eclipses) || || ...

...symbols that are interpreted generally as the [[Sun]] or [[full moon]], a lunar [[crescent]], and stars (including a cluster of seven stars interpreted as ...s of planets and stars movements to predict future possibilities such as [[eclipses]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Early astronomy. From Babylonian to Copernicus|las ...

|conference = 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2023 |publisher = Lunar and Planetary Institute ...

...as a proto-satellite disk (in the case of the Earth-Moon system, the proto-lunar disk). Models of gas during the formation of planets coincide with a genera [[File:Lunar phases al-Biruni.jpg|200px|thumb|An illustration from [[al-Biruni]]'s astro ...

...r 1582.{{sfnp|Gregory XIII|1582}} In addition, the reform also altered the lunar cycle used by the Church to calculate the date for Easter, because astronom ...he least common multiple (10,000) of the 400-year and 2,500-year solar and lunar correction cycles.{{sfnp|Walker|1945|page=218}}}} Of these 400 years, 303 a ...

*[[lunar laser ranging]] since the 1969 [[Apollo 11]] left the first of a series of ...tle=Historical values of the Earth's clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses |journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=32 ...

...AAAAMAAJ|year=1816 |publisher=Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy}}</ref> predicting eclipses, and describing the orbits of the planets.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Neugeba ...

| Due to the [[Tidal acceleration|lunar tides decelerating the Earth's rotation]], the average length of a [[solar | Due to lunar tides decelerating the Earth's rotation, a day on Earth is expected to be o ...

...lculations for astronomical constants, such as the [[solar eclipse]] and [[lunar eclipse]], computes π to four decimal places, and obtains whole number solu ...us planets, their rising and setting, conjunctions, and the calculation of eclipses of the sun and the moon. ...