15 facts about solar eclipses

Eclipse is an astronomical situation in which one celestial body blocks the light from another celestial body. The most famous lunar and solar eclipses. It is about them and will be discussed in this release.

The longest Eclipse in this century occurred on July 22, 2009, it was observed in India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. The duration of the Eclipse was 6 minutes and 29 seconds.

The shadow of the moon when the Eclipse moves across the surface of the Earth at a speed of up to 2000 meters per second.

Before completely disappear behind the Moon, on the edge of the solar disk are clearly visible "rays" and a variety of education. This is because the sun's rays are almost parallel to the surface of the moon, reflected and stopping the irregularities of the lunar soil craters and mountains.

The above feature often used by young people to offer his hand and heart to my choice, because the view of the sky is very similar to engagement ring.

Beauty and precision, solar eclipses were caused by a miraculous coincidence, the diameter of the Sun is 400 times the diameter of the moon, the distance is 400 times bigger than the moon.

Earth is the only place in the Solar system where one can witness a full solar Eclipse.

Chinese character to refer to a solar Eclipse — Shi means "to eat". In Ancient China it was believed that when the sun dog eats the Sun, so all the inhabitants began to rapidly beat the drums and make other loud sounds to beast belched shone back up at the sky.

In the same China that found the most ancient mention of a solar Eclipse, which date back to at least 1050 BC.

Comparing data from the Chinese ancient sources and by modern observations, astronomers through complex calculations determined that for three thousand years, the length of day has increased by 0.047 seconds.

Inertia of the oceans except for the slowing of Earth's rotation leads to the distance of the moon from Earth. It is estimated that 600 million years the Moon moving away from Earth so that it will not be enough to "closing" of the Sun, so a solar Eclipse will stop.

At any point of the Earth's solar Eclipse can be observed on average once every 360 years.

But there are special places on Earth, such as Carbondale in Illinoise, USA — there was an Eclipse on 21 August 2017 and is planned for April 8, 2024, that is, with the span of just seven years!

During a lunar Eclipse the moon is formed around a visible reddish halo due to the fact that the sun's rays on the way to the moon pass through earth's atmosphere.

Canadian astronomer John. Campbell 50 years of his life spent, "collecting" different types of eclipses. He wanted to see 12 different types of these events, and each time the sky was closed by dense clouds