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{{Infobox solar eclipse|1997Mar09 | previous = Solar eclipse of October 12, 1996 ...

...alculations on 90% of the difference in lunar [[apsis]] extremes for the [[solar year]]. In other words, a full or new moon is considered a supermoon if <m ...oons. Almost all total lunar eclipses in [[Lunar Saros 129]] are micromoon eclipses. An example of a supermoon lunar eclipse is the [[September 2015 lunar ecli ...

...rticular, the processes of production of the [[radiation]] coming from the solar corona and transition region, where the plasma is optically-thin. On the co The [[solar corona|corona]] extends much further than a solar radius from the [[photosphere]] and looks very complex and inhomogeneous in ...

...when it is in opposition to the [[Sun]]. Because most [[orbit]]s in the [[Solar System]] are nearly [[coplanar]] to the [[ecliptic]], this occurs when the ...central area of the earth aligns more precisely: a [[List of central lunar eclipses|central lunar eclipse]], of which there were 14 in the 50 years to 2000, ot ...

...ations Rømer used the idea and observations that the apparent time between eclipses would be greater while the Earth is moving further from Jupiter and lesser ...ed to be impractical, not least because of the difficulty of observing the eclipses from a ship. However, with refinements the method could be made to work on ...

...period is called the '''anomalistic month'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=NASA - Eclipses and the Moon's Orbit |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/moonorbit.ht ...]s and eat the Sun or Moon during an [[eclipse]].{{sfn|Linton|2004|p=7}} A solar or lunar eclipse is possible only when the Moon is at or near either of the ...

...]],<ref name="podsiadlowski" /> be constrained from the non-observation of eclipses,<ref name="bailes" /><ref name="kerkwijk" /> or be modelled using ellipsoid ...D. |title=Proceedings of the workshop "Orbital Couples: Pas de Deux in the Solar System and the Milky Way" |date=2012 |pages=41–44 |chapter=The mass-ratio d ...

...ar eclipse.tif|300px|thumb|The [[Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919|29 May 1919 solar eclipse]]]] ...trich/philosophy/docs/glymour/relativityeclipses.pdf |title=Relativity and eclipses: the British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors |journal=Hi ...

...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) || || ...

...he type of year used by [[Solar calendar#Tropical solar calendars|tropical solar calendar]]s. ...leap days]]) is designed so as to resynchronise the calendar year with the solar year at regular intervals. ...

| axis_unitless = {{solar radius|1.46|link=y}} ...iable star designation RR Caeli in 1984. There are very shallow secondary eclipses where the white dwarf transits across the red dwarf.<ref name="Bruch"/> ...

[[File:Solar system scale-2.jpg|thumb|Approximate sizes of the planets relative to each ...f information that expressed the way the people of the time thought of the Solar System. ...

...|first1=John |last2=Glymour |first2=Clark |year=1980 |title=Relativity and eclipses: the British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors |url=https: ...

...te systems are large and diverse, in fact, all of the giant planets of the Solar System possess large satellite systems as well as planetary rings, and it i Little is known of satellite systems beyond the Solar System, although it is inferred that natural satellites are common. Possibl ...

In 2020, with the detection of secondary eclipses (when the planet is blocked by its star), the mass of the planet along with ...which was the first detected [[hydroxyl]] radicals on a planet outside the solar system.<ref>{{citation|arxiv = 2103.03094|year = 2021|title = First Detecti ...

...more closely approximating the 365.2422-day [[tropical year|"tropical" or "solar" year]] that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. ...calendar. First, the Julian calendar assumed incorrectly that the average solar year is exactly 365.25 days long, an overestimate of a little under one day ...

...AAAAMAAJ|year=1816 |publisher=Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy}}</ref> predicting eclipses, and describing the orbits of the planets.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Neugeba ...{cite book|author1=Michael Seeds|author2=Dana Backman|title=Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DajpkyXS-NUC&pg=PT2 ...

== Earth, the Solar System and the universe == {{See also|Formation and evolution of the Solar System|List of future astronomical events}} ...

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