Total Eclipses: Science, Observations, Myths and LegendsLively and easy to understand, Total Eclipses presents the myths and legends associated with solar and lunar eclipses through the ages, the mechanisms governing these events, their beauty, and the wealth of information gleaned from them by astronomers and astrophysicists. "Gives a wide variety of information on observing eclipses for the novice as well as on the value of eclipses to professionals...any reader can find information at an interesting and appropriate level and can be sure that he is being guided knowledgeably." -NATURE |
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Table des matières
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HISTORICAL ECLIPSES AND DISCOVERIES | 81 |
OBSERVING TOTAL ECLIPSES OF THE SUN | 141 |
PHOTOGRAPHING ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON | 159 |
Appendix B Eclipses and coronal physics | 185 |
Radial variations in plasma densities in the corona | 191 |
The smallest coronal structure detected during the eclipse | 204 |
1 Coronal structures 9 March 1997 | 210 |
Computer program for solar and lunar eclipse dates | 213 |
Appendix D | 217 |
Appendix E Eclipses of the Sun and Moon until 2010 | 227 |
Bibliography | 237 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
aircraft altitude amateurs annular appear astronomers atmosphere axis Baily's Beads brightness calculated camera centre chromosphere colour coronagraph coronal holes coronal structures cycle dark density diameter distance duration of totality Earth eclipse observations ejections electrons energy equator equatorial event exposure film filter focal length gradient Guillermier hydrogen IAP/CNRS inner corona Institut d'Astrophysique instrument ionised kilometres Koutchmy latitude lenses limb longitude lunar eclipse Lyot magnetic field maximum measurements minutes Moon Moon's shadow motion neutrino Observatory obtained occultation optical orbit Paris Observatory penumbra phenomena phenomenon photograph photosphere plane plasmoid polar polarisation prominences radial refractor regions rotation satellite seconds seen Shadow bands SOHO solar activity solar corona solar disk solar eclipse solar minimum solar radii solar wind space spectral stars streamers sunspots taken telescope temperature third contact total eclipse umbra umbral cone velocities visible wavelengths X-ray Yohkoh zodiacal light zone
Fréquemment cités
Page 89 - In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
Page 88 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Page 90 - I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Page 89 - And on that day," says the Lord GOD, "I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Page 61 - ... wonderful sciences there is no science which deals with such a gorgeous spectacle as is exhibited by the queen of the sciences, astronomy, at the moment when the earth is gradually shrouded in darkness and when around the smiling orb of day there appears the matchless crown of glory, the beautiful corona. Nor can any science duplicate the wonderful precision shown by the work of the astronomer in his capacity to predict hundreds of years in advance the exact hour and minute at which an eclipse...
Page 58 - The earth's axis of rotation is not perpendicular to the plane of its orbit but is inclined to it at an angle of 66° 33' ; that is, the plane of the earth's equator is inclined at an angle of 23° 27' to the plane of the earth's orbit.
Page 89 - From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' — which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Page 146 - Horrox, the astronomer, who, having made up his mind that it was possible to observe the transit of Venus across the face of the sun...
Page 14 - The invention of the telescope, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was a tremendous stimulus to imagination as well as to science.
Page 144 - ... from light to day, from day to the bright half of the month, from the bright half of the month to the six months during which the sun moves to the north, from these months to the year, from the year to the sun, from the sun to the moon, and from the moon to the lightning. There is a person not-human who carries them to Brahman. This path is known as the path of the Gods, or the path of Brahman. Those who proceed on this path never return to the cycle of human existences, yea never return

