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• Solar Eclipse
  ...the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. ...dinary coincidence" that the maximum size of the Moon during a total solar eclipse matches the size of the Sun. From [https://books.google.com/books?id=rdAoD
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• Lunar Eclipse due to Shadow Object
  A '''Lunar Eclipse''' occurs about twice a year when a satellite of the sun passes between th ...the entire half of the earth beneath the moon at that time, while a solar eclipse is visible only along a narrow path on the earth's surface.
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• Solar Eclipse
  ...the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. ...dinary coincidence" that the maximum size of the Moon during a total solar eclipse matches the size of the Sun. From [https://books.google.com/books?id=rdAoD
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• Magnification of the Sun at Sunset
  Find a photo of a Solar Eclipse, which are often taken through a solar filter, and then modify the brightness and contrast settings in order to br [[File:Solar eclipse brightness.gif]]
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• Astronomical Prediction Based on Patterns
  ...ts. They knew the periods of the planets with some accuracy, and also used eclipses as a basis for calculation. There was, however, no geometrical scheme of ...a system of cranks? No more did Hipparchus believe that the bodies of the solar system were actually attached to the radial arms of his epicycles; his was
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• Moon
  *The [[Solar Eclipse]] *[[The Lunar Eclipse]]
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• The Lunar Eclipse
  ...ly a small strip of land on the Earth's surface, the totality of the Lunar Eclipse is an event which is seen by anyone who can see the Moon in their sky. There are several potential mechanisms for the occurance of the Lunar Eclipse.
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• Stellar Parallax
  ...s regards the sizes of the Sun and Moon discs producing the observed solar eclipse effect that we marvel at sits more comfortably with the intelligent design
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• Symplectic Integrators
  ...blications.mfo.de/handle/mfo/1355 Computing the long term evolution of the solar system with geometric numerical integrators]''' ([https://web.archive.org/w ...he correct behavior. We explain the main ideas of how the evolution of the solar system can be computed over long times by taking advantage of so-called geo
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• Three Body Problem
  ...5003722/http://ptrow.com/articles/ChaosandSolarSystem5.htm ''Chaos and the Solar System''] ...e immediately set to work applying it to the motions of the planets in the solar system. If you have a planet orbiting a much larger body, like the sun, and
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• Numerical Solutions
  ...mathematically prove certain observed facts (such as the stability of the solar system) concerning N-body motion. The best we can do is to approximate the ...are cheats. For example, although there are more than three bodies in the solar system (the Sun, eight planets, dozens of moons, and millions of asteroids
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• Assorted Quotations
  ...spheres as with thumb and line. They assign causes for lightening, winds, eclipses, and other inexplicable things, never hesitating a whit, as if they were ...exactly the ancient patterns and the results are the same. The Copernican solar theory is definitely a step in the wrong direction for the actual computati
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• A hundred proofs the Earth is not a globe
  ...ove the horizon, it follows that it cannot be the shadow of the Earth that eclipses the Moon; that the theory is a blunder; and that it is nothing less than ...ot seen that this proves too much. It is well known that Ptolemy predicted eclipses for six-hundred years, on the basis of a plane Earth, with as much accura
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• Star Size Illusion
  ...universe together. In discussing the parts of the universe—the stars, the solar system (the system of the “movables,” as Kepler calls them), and the Ea ...s engage in programs of systematic telescopic observations in order to use eclipses of Jupiter’s moons to measure the distance to Jupiter, and to use Satur
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