On all sides we beheld the shepherds hurrying their flocks into fold, the darkness coming on; for they expected nothing less than a total eclipse for an hour and a quarter.
But a total eclipse is not all darkness and terror; it has a beauty and a glory all its own.
There is no phenomenon of nature which is so truly impressive as a total eclipse of the sun.
Indeed, it is too conspicuous an apparition to escape notice from the least attentive or least practised observer of a total eclipse.
In a total eclipse, on the contrary, the sun completely disappears behind the dark body of the moon.
Thus, at L, within the moon's shadow, the sunlight will be entirely cut off, producing what is called a total eclipse.
A partial eclipse of the moon will usually occur about a fortnight before or after a total eclipse of the sun, since the full moon will then be within the eclipse limit at the opposite node.
Lunar Eclipse Limits If at any full moon the earth is Less than 4 days away from a node, a total eclipse is certain.
But when the actual disc is hidden from us by the moon in a total eclipse, other regions of light surrounding the disc, make their appearance, and in them the most wonderful processes are continually going on.
For many years past, whenever a total eclipse occurred, there were observed on the edge of this ring certain red prominences.
In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
He was at my station on one occasion when a total eclipse of the sun was to be observed, and made a report on what he saw.
In order to comprehend the difference between an annular and a total eclipse of the sun, it is necessary to mention the apparent sizes of the sun and moon: thus, the former is a very large body--viz.
This is a very unexpected result; and considering the comparative faintness of the sun's corona during a total eclipse, it is not surprising that all attempts to photograph it without an eclipse have hitherto failed.
This may perhaps refer to a total eclipse of the sun; but if so, the eclipse is not mentioned in the Chinese list of eclipses.
Harding again saw it on February 28 of the same year, the illumination being of a reddish grey colour, "like that of the moon in a total eclipse.
His observation of the sun's total eclipse in 1715 is the earliest reliable account of such a phenomenon by a trained astronomer.
He is universally known as the first astronomer who ever predicted a total eclipse of the sun that happened when he said it would: the eclipse of B.
We can, however, see them easily enough when the brilliant body of the sun is obscured during the rare occurrence of a total eclipse.
For the present it will be sufficient to observe that by the movement of the moon it may so happen that the moon completely hides the sun, and thus for certain parts of the earth produces what we call a total eclipse.
To an observer a few miles away the sun was not entirely hidden, for the shadow of the moon in a total eclipse is rarely one hundred miles wide.
Of course we know a great deal about the spots, the rotation of the sun on its axis, the materials of which it is composed, and how its surroundings look during a total eclipse.
In 763 a total eclipse of the sun took place, and is perhaps implied by the ninth verse of his eighth chapter.
A most unwelcome word to all Whom fifty years of charm have held in thrall: Total eclipse--of pleasure on their part Who love pure melody and polished Art.
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