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The following text included in the "Gravity anomalies" section is a fragment:
"In 1954 and again in 1959, Maurice Allais reported that his observations of the strange/unexplained movement during solar eclipses."
I don't know what the intended meaning was to be, so I'm not changing it, but perhaps someone can complete the thought? Moonharpoon (talk) 05:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
"A recent published observation during the 1997 solar eclipse by Wang et al. suggested a possible gravitational shielding effect, which generated debate. Later in 2002, Yang and Wang published detailed data analysis, which suggested that the phenomenon still remains unexplained."
This is somewhat misleading, the 2002 publication focuses on two anomalies which occur at first and last contact, there was no significant gravitational variation during totality.
"When the two anomalies occurred, the shadow region was hundreds of kilometers far away from the observation point, and this was not possible to affect the point of observation in term of any possible shadow effects."
"The observations during the Mohe solar eclipse show no significant gravity variations during the solar eclipse from the first contact to the last contact. Therefore, the possible gravitational absorption or shielding remains undetermined."
"Besides all possible explanations of the observed data, Unnikrishnan et al (2001) argued that the observed variations does not necessarily support the hypothesis of gravitational shielding."
Recommend edit to indicate that, while observed gravitational anomalies remain unexplained, it is not suspected that gravitational shielding was observed.
The article says, "Solar eclipses are an extreme rarity within the universe at large." Well, in our Solar System, they're very rare to unique, depending on how one defines things. One might have them on Mars or Pluto, but the match between the apparent size of our Moon and the Sun as seen from Earth is unique (Mars can never have better than an annular eclipse, and on Pluto, the moons are seen much larger than the Sun). But to say they are rare in the universe at large is, I think, a bit of a stretch. We really don't know, and the best we could say is, they are PROBABLY rare. Odds are that the circumstances wouldn't happen very often, but those odds would increase if it turns out that a lot of planets have a lot of moons. I suppose there's also the (incredibly un likely) possibility of on planet in a system casting an eclipse on another planet. 140.147.236.194 (talk) 21:04, 30 November 2010 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
-- I agree. Plus, discussion of rarity of solar eclipses could also be extended to the Sun-Earth-Moon system itself and our particular moment in solar system history. The Moon's orbital distance is gradually increasing over time, and eventually in the distant future (anyone know when??) the Moon will be sufficiently far away that even at perigee a total solar eclipse will become impossible. It would also be interesting to know how frequent (plus how much wider the path of totality, and difference in duration) were solar eclipses in Earth's distant path (Cambrian era, etc.) when the Moon was closer. 24 August 2017 Mark Protsik — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.6.44 (talk) 21:30, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
I'm an educated, curious layperson, and am frustrated by the fact that none, NONE of the maps (like the ones in section "occurrence and cycles") have a legend. All the lines are color coded, and nowhere can I find what those codes mean. A graphic with color coded (or using different line types) is close to useless without a LEGEND! This problem exists with ALL solar eclipse maps on wikipedia.
Can someone help us? 184.57.7.58 (talk) 00:28, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I find that the image "Total Solar Eclipse Paths: 1001–2000" in Solar_eclipse#Occurrence_and_cycles (reproduced on the right) covers way too long a time span and hence does not provide much useful information, other than where eclipses have not occurred.
A span of 20 years, such as 2001–2020 paths or a composite of, say, 100 years centred on approximately the current year (1961–2060) from images on NASA to World Atlas of Solar Eclipse Paths may be more readable.
No doubt User:Yaohua2000 has put in a lot of effort to composite the NASA images, so before I change the image, what do you think?
Thanks, cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 11:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
A picture of the surface of the earth during an eclipse can be very helpful in so much of this explanation. You can see the darkest center where it is total and the lighter shadow around it etc. A good example is on the nasa site at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html" - not sure if that is considered public domain or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.112.149 (talk) 04:26, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
This animation is pretty nice: SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 20:53, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Done -- TNKS, this is one of the best graphics in the article, (added three years ago.) -- AstroU (talk) 11:56, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
I do know first-hand that rarely, an annular eclipse might not actually form a solid, unbroken ring. If it is very near to total--that is, magnitude just shy of 1.000000, the moon almost covers the face of the sun--then one might see a ring of irregular bright beads. This is not the same as the diamond ring effect, just before and just after totality, but the principle is similar.
I saw the annular eclipse of May 30, 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. That was so close to total that I remember some speculation that it might have been briefly total at the peak eclipse point around Petersburg, Virginia (the entire area had rain that day, and nobody on the ground there saw anything). I used a small telescope to project an image of maybe four inches diameter on card.
At the instant that the last crescent of the sun disappeared, the image abruptly changed to those irregular beads. Unfortunately, that lasted maybe less than a second, and by the time I pressed the shutter on my camera, the image had already jumped to the opposite crescent.
I also remember hearing that the beads are explained by mountains and valleys on the limb of the moon as we see it: where the terrain is high, it blocks the sun; where it is low, the sun shines through. But I haven't got citations to back this up. 140.147.236.195 (talk) 22:10, 20 January 2012 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
Is smoked glass actually safe? It seems like there could be a very wide variation in the thickness of the soot and it could be easily scratched. Showing a little kid using it makes me cringe. That's just has to be a bad idea.
Those plastic eclipse glasses do not seem much better.
There is no discussion of either smoked glass or the eclise glasses in the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.137.158 (talk) 05:32, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
The reference provided at the end of this section didn't match the numbers in the article. Indeed, the rate of recession of the moon is about 3.8 cm/y, but the source gives 2.2. The distance the moon has to cover was also different, and chances are that the source is wrong on that front as well. However, until a proper source is found, I changed the numbers to the current ref's. I'd search myself, but I'm busy at the moment... EricLeb01 (Page | Talk) 21:54, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
The fact remains that many people, myself included, look at a direct full sun with no retinal impairment whatsoever. Indeed it seems highly improbable that our eyes would have evolved into such vulnerable organs of perception in a world where it would be quite natural to look inquisitively upon the source of heat, light, and even life itself. During the sixties, Life magazine (or it may have been Look) reported in a story on Pablo Picasso that the celebrated genius, who depended on his eyes as few men ever did, had a habit of staring for long periods directly into the blaze of a Spanish sun. Orthotox (talk) 07:08, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I edited that phrase in 4th 'graph of the section, to make it lk to Inertial frame of reference (keeping the same text visible by piping). I'm not sure it's the ideal lk, but it takes a lot more sophistication to realize there can be more than one frame of reference than it does to count days and hours between risings of the full moon, and the self-starters deserve some path forward.
--Jerzy•t 07:33, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
A colleague has correctly perceived that the last rows of the table show something valuable that the first rows cannot as conveniently show, but has arranged it to make what the first rows show clear at the cost of making what the last rows show obscure. I have changed "Rank in descending order" to "Ordered in decreasing apparent size" which is hopefully more intuitive: "Rank" is ambiguous as to what is descending and as to whether 1 is highest or lowest rank, but i assume "1 comes first (reflecting least decreased size)" requires less mental gymnastics.
But i think what would best serve users is a sortable table: i know our tables support sorting by a column value to determine the order of rows (tho if supported, perhaps sorting by row value to determine the order of columns would server better here); while focusing on what are currently the rows from "Sun/Moon" down to "Angular diameter", the present ordering of columns is ideal. Letting the user reorder the columns so the adjacent disks were those closest in diameter, while focusing on the rows from "Angular diameter" down to "rank ..." (or "order ..."), would make their relationship much more clear (even if the big moon and big sun might still be too hard to rank by eye even when adjacent).
--Jerzy•t 09:13, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
External Animation Video on Eclipse from SarvaShikshan
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Ganeshwatve (talk) 05:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
In regards to the 2017 solar eclipse, I found out last summer that the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has the eclipse maximum centered near Carbondale Illinois http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Eclipse2017.php . Their time is four seconds longer than what is reported at NASA.
A man in New Mexico, a Michael Zeiler, at http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html has the eclipse centered near Goreville Illinois. Eclipse chasers respect Mr. Zeiler’s work in regards to his eclipse maps because they are highly accurate. He has the eclipse time one second longer that what is shown at NASA. (Zeiler's results and USNO are 19 miles apart.) Michael gave me this information last month. With all that in mind, Mr. Fred Espenak has the eclipse still centered near Hopkinsville Kentucky. I wrote to him last year asking him about the new findings pointing to southern Illinois. Mr. Espenak’s response was, “Yes, I agree.”
I am aware Mr. Espenak had retired in 2009. NASA now considers him a volunteer. Yet, his information is out-of-date on the NASA website. The last time he updated his data was back in 2007 (except for some minor issues currently). NASA has decided not to hire a successor (as far as I can tell).
All of these changes are because of the new findings about our moon’s topography derived from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe that was launched back in 2009. USNO and Mr. Zeiler have incorporated the LRO findings into their data and maps. Mr. Espenak has not.
Almost everyone uses the NASA solar eclipse site as their main source of information. However, the public needs to be made aware of southern Illinois as being the center of maximum duration in 2017 and not Hopkinsville. But how do you do that with the NASA website showing dated material and everybody using it as their primary source of information? Nobody knows it is out-of-date!
USNO told me that they do not use the GE terminology...they prefer maximum duration! (Does Mr. Espenak and the staff at USNO ever chat with each other about the discrepancies?) Mr. Espenak did say he needs to rewrite the definition for GE. The reluctance by nearly everyone to accept the new information about Illinois has been quite frustrating! I can’t do much until NASA expresses in some shape or form, on their eclipse website, that what is being portrayed is dated! firstmagnitude (Larry Koehn) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Firstmagnitude (talk • contribs) 21:32, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
The FA violates comprehensiveness parameter. There are many legends explaining solar eclipses in various cultures [6][7][8]. Also, there are many superstitions/rituals to be observed during an eclipse, which are not covered. --Redtigerxyz Talk 06:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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Original text: The orbital planes cross each year at a line of nodes resulting
Is "year" the right word? Isn't "other" the correct?
179.27.2.102 (talk) 00:24, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
In the last section, there are a few usages like "between each eclipse" which is not proper English. It should be "between consecutive eclipses". You can't be between one thing. You have to be between two things.
Sorry I don't see where to where to add an edit request so I put it here with a previous one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.7.19.236 (talk • contribs) 06:37, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Be sure to read the readers' comments below the article.
Headline-1: Now We Actually Have a Real Reason to Dread Solar Eclipses
QUOTE: "Superstitions have surrounded the eerie solar eclipse since time immemorial. And now, for entirely scientific reasons, it turns out we have good reason to fear them. Earth's biggest solar eclipse since 1999 is happening this March, and it could cause some real disruption—thanks to Europe's reliance on solar energy." -- AstroU (talk) 12:03, 25 February 2015 (UTC) -- PS: FYI for future editing.
Headline-2: Solar Eclipse to Disrupt Power Supplies
QUOTE: "Power supplies could drop suddenly next month when the UK is plunged into darkness with an eclipse of the sun. Energy experts warned there could be possible blackouts in the biggest solar eclipse since 1999. Nearly 90 per cent of the sun's rays will be blocked out in parts of Europe on March 20. In London and the South East, 85 per cent of the sun will be obscured by the moon whilst in northern Scotland, more than 95 per cent will be covered. The National Grid has warned that solar power output in Britain will halve during the event. It is unlikely to cause problems as so little electricity comes from solar power im the UK but other parts of Europe come be plunged into darkness." -- AstroU (talk) 19:16, 25 February 2015 (UTC) -- PS: This was linked from the top of the Drudge Report today.
"Although they occur somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average..." "Between two and five solar eclipses occur every year, with at least one per eclipse season." Now I'm not an expert in astronomy, but from a purely logical PoV those statements appear to be contradictory since they both refer to solar eclipses on earth. And if not, then a clarification is needed here. Phebus333 (talk) 19:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
The reference links #55 and #58 are dead. 176.221.120.203 (talk) 11:43, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
• A 3/20/2015 Solar Eclipse photograph, if the authors think the photo is valuable to add to the article. http://www.nasa.gov/content/solar-eclipse-from-the-international-space-station/ Jcardazzi (talk) 15:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)jcardazzi
The article states the last non-central solar eclipse to have been April 29th 2014 but there was a partial solar eclipse on the October 23rd 2014 which would be more recent than one in April. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:4:400:12DC:4C69:F801:C662:1E67 (talk) 18:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Tomruen I have reverted your addition of the ambox to the top of the article with the edit summary "I question the appropriateness of this information in such a prominent position". I'm fine with this information lower down the article, but I don't think it warrants such prominence in the article. Also is there not a danger that it is not updated quickly, which will be giving false information. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:48, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
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I believe that the description of the "Moon" is incorrect. I would like to request permission to edit the article. Thank You. Jake-En-Ator (talk) 20:02, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done This is not the place to request additional rights, try Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed. If you suggest an edit, then it can be discussed here. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:04, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Today's mainpage says "3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland." but there is nothing in this article.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 00:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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Andrmoel (talk) 06:26, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
I want to add the following weblink, which shows all eclipses (year -2000 to 3000) crossing the US: http://www.solar-eclipse.de/en/eclipse/country/US/
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Change the syntax of the image at the top-right to
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|[[File:Solar eclipse 1999 4 NR.jpg|308px|Total solar eclipse]]
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| A ''total solar eclipse'' occurs when the Moon completely covers the Sun's disk, as seen in this [[Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999|1999 solar eclipse]]. [[Solar prominence]]s can be seen along the limb (in red) as well as extensive [[corona]]l filaments.
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|[[File:Annular Eclipse. Taken from Middlegate, Nevada on May 20, 2012.jpg|x154px|Annular solar eclipse]][[File:Partial solar eclipse Oct 23 2014 Minneapolis 5-36pm Ruen1.png|x154px|Partial solar eclipse]]
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| An ''annular solar eclipse'' (left) occurs when the Moon is too far away to completely cover the Sun's disk ([[solar eclipse of May 20, 2012|May 20, 2012]]). During a ''partial solar eclipse'' (right), the Moon blocks only part of the Sun's disk ([[Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014|October 23, 2014]]).
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As the partial image was at the bottom of the annular image. It should be at the right. 219.78.191.132 (talk) 01:52, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Under Types the discussion of the distance from earth to sun refers to specific dates of perihelion and aphelion. Of course, these dates are only for now and will be different in the future. Someone should add a "as of now." 50.206.242.50 (talk) 01:19, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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In the section Duration (3.), change "orbital velocity" to "the earth's surface rotational velocity" 142.90.105.23 (talk) 23:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
The information in Solar_eclipse#Predictions does allow us to predict on what days an eclipse can occur somewhere on the earth. Most of this type of information was known by the Greeks who used it to build eclipse prediction into the Antikythera mechanism.
However, it is through the use of Besselian Elements that we can predict precisely whether an eclipse will be partial, annular, or total (or annular/total), and (along with ΔT) what the circumstances will be at any given location. The Solar Eclipse article does have a link to the Besselian elements article, but the Solar Eclipse article doesn't mention Besselian elements and gives no indication what Besselian elements have to do with eclipses.
Calculations with Besselian elements can determine the exact shape of the umbra's shadow on the earth's surface. But at what longitudes on the earth's surface the shadow falls is a function of the earth's rotation, and on how much that rotation has slowed down over time. A number called ΔT is used in eclipse prediction to take this slowing into account. As the earth slows, delta T increases. Unfortunately for eclipse predictors, delta T for dates in the future can only be roughly estimated because the earth's rotation is slowing irregularly. This means that, although it is possible to predict that there will be a total eclipse on a certain date in the far future, it is not possible to predict in the far future exactly at what longitudes that eclipse will be total.
The article on Besselian elements could be expanded to include some of this information. So could the article on delta T. However, it seems to me that the Prediction section of the Solar Eclipse article is the best place for all of this.
This reference has all of the details and equations to predict local eclipse circumstances: “Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac”, 3rd edition, edited by Sean E. Urban and P. Kenneth Seidelmann, University Science Books, 2013. MathPerson (talk) 03:49, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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Shouldn't there be a section on how the phenomenon is treated in culture and religion? Solar eclipses are of great interest from a non-scientific perspective.VR talk 18:07, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
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In the photo near the top of the partial eclipses, the captions say left/right, but the photos are oriented vertically. Either orient the picture left/right, or change the captions to say left and right. Thespursfan (talk) 18:57, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
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Grammatical errors in introduction.
Change: "However, since the Moon's orbit is tilted at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun (see ecliptic), so its shadow usually misses Earth. Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moon's orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur."
to: "However, since the Moon's orbit is tilted at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun (see ecliptic), its shadow usually misses Earth. The Moon's orbit must cross Earth's ecliptic plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur." Ralphmcgill (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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This is a grammar correction. In "An eclipse is a natural phenomenon. However, in some ancient and modern cultures, it was believed that solar eclipses is attributed to supernatural causes or regarded as bad omens.
Suggested change: from "it was believed that solar eclipses is attributed to" to "solar eclipses were attributed to" 70.64.100.245 (talk) 15:04, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Please add math algorithms (and description) for lunar shadow size on earth's surface. There is some math in this article. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/Math_Challenge9_.pdf Thanks! • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:11, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
NASA's historical eclipse pages are presently all being redirected to their 2017 eclipse web site. This is probably a temporary attempt to deal with the large amount of web traffic. Do not remove seemingly incorrect links to NASA eclipse pages during August 2017. -- SEWilco (talk) 16:33, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that the first paragraph of the article has the word "occults" in parentheses. I believe the word they meant to put there was occludes.
Rinnisia (talk) 00:42, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
The reference in this science article to certain attempts to date the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth based on the "eclipse" (ἐκλιπόντος) reference in the Gospel according to Luke (23:45) should perhaps be completely deleted here and moved to a relevant religious article, or at the very least corrected if retained. Solar eclipses only occur during New Moons when the Moon gets between the Earth and the Sun; whereas the feast of Passover, when the crucifixion reportedly occurred, always take place near a Full Moon, when solar eclipses are physically impossible because it is on the opposite side of the earth. Only lunar eclipses can occur during that period. There was a solar eclipse in November 29CE, but the path of totality was apparently further to the north around Antioch and only partial and marginally noticable around Jerusalem. The Greek text could merely mean that the sun was "obscured", and not necessarily by the Moon. There apparently was a lunar eclipse in April 33CE that might have been visible, but that is not the reference in the Gospel account.
21 Aug 2017, Mark Protsik — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.6.44 (talk) 19:35, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
One of the pictures at the beginning of the article has the caption:
An annular solar eclipse (above) occurs when the Moon is too far away to completely cover the Sun's disk. During a partial solar eclipse (below), the Moon blocks only part of the Sun's disk.
The phrasing used doesn't actually distinguish between an annular and partial eclipse. In neither of the two cases is the Sun's disk covered by the Moon. The difference, rather, between an annular and partial eclipse is whether or not the whole Moon is covering the Sun. So, someone should fix that. 151.141.81.91 (talk) 02:48, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
There is a picture of a rotating earth as seen from space meant to depict the eclipse moving across its face. I cannot see this. If others can't either, I suggest the photo be replaced or removed. It is "interesting" except that it seems to depict great black shadows "someplace" on earth. Student7 (talk) 22:33, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
The earth, for a "good long while" had total eclipses which completely blotted out the sun. Few/no solar prominences. The moon was closer and seemed larger. As the moon spiraled out, we have today's apparent sun=moon, with the sun 400 x the distance of the moon, with the sun 400 x the size of the moon. The first is a "window' which opened some astronomical time ago and will be open for several hundred millions of years. This needs to be recorded, if found. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 22:33, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
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The solar eclipse is very simple, you think about an apple and a peice of paper, cover the apple withe peice of paper in 30 minutes. Like a month. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.239.77.34 (talk) 17:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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Add the term Totality into the first paragraph: ...close to the ecliptic plane. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. [insert: During this period, a totality(link to Totality article) occurs in which all light directly from the sun is blocked.] In... Electricality (talk) 19:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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template. The Totality article is actually a disambiguation page. — Newslinger talk 12:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)Did you know that there exists partial solar elipses at sealevel but they are just non-central total or just non-central annular on the highlands of Antarctica? And also entirely no eclipse at sealevel but are just very little partial on the same highlands? 84.80.54.162 (talk) 19:15, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
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The last Solar Eclipse occurred on Dec 26th 2019. SandhiyaN (talk) 06:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
This sentence "A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks sunlight" could be made more convoluted if you really tried.
Alternatively, try: "is when the Earth's moon passes betweeen the Earth and the sun, casting a narrow shadow on Earth."
I assume the page is locked against editing due to someone considering the original epic sentence I quoted to be their personal hill and magnum opus.
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Rig Veda, the oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism, composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 bce. It mention about the solar eclipse phenomenon
यत् त्वा सूर्य स्वर्भानुस्तमसाविध्यदासुर∶Ι अक्षेत्रविद् यथा मुग्धो भुवनान्यदीधयुःΙΙ5ΙΙ यं वै सूर्यं स्वर्भानुस्तमसाविध्यदासुर∶Ι अत्रयस्तमन्वविन्दन् नह्यन्ये अशक्नुवन्ΙΙ9ΙΙ Rig Veda 5.40.5, 5.40.9
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“O Sun! When you are blocked by the one whom you gifted your own light (moon), then earth gets scared by sudden darkness” — Preceding unsigned comment added by SHAILOcA (talk • contribs) 12:33, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
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Annual 106.201.224.241 (talk) 07:34, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Article needs to be updated and rewritten on other sections. There are also a lot of unsourced statements. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 07:25, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
I'd argue that this is best left as a list, because it makes clear the fact that there are five distinct factors affecting the duration of an eclipse, which would be less obvious if converted to prose. Photastro (talk) 23:36, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
In the section Final totality the words geological time scale perhaps could be a wikilink. Thanks to whom can make it this way 79.49.54.169 (talk) 20:06, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Section "Recent and forthcoming solar eclipses" lists eclipses in groups, by years. Each group's tex begins "This eclipse is a member of a semester series." But there are several eclipses in the list. "These eclipses are members of semester series" would be more correct. This exact error repeats for other groups of years. 172.56.198.126 (talk) 15:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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Add File:Solar eclipse of April 2024 from Indianapolis.jpg to List of eclipses for April 8th, 2024 Litorom1 (talk) 20:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Today I added this, before the templates about eclipse series:
The following is a series of Wikipedia templates that are used in articles on individual eclipses. Each template gives a series of eclipses separated by one semester, which is six lunar months. These series sometimes overlap, so for instance the eclipse on July 31, 2000, is in the first series whereas that of July 1 is in the second series. The maps show the path of the area of total eclipse (in blue) or of annular eclipse (in red), and contours of maximum percentage coverage of the sun in areas that do not see a total or annular eclipse, and of the time (standard London time) of maximum coverage. The "figure 8"s that one sees near the boundary of night and day surround areas that see only part of the eclipse because some of it occurs before dawn or after sundown for people there. A sort of asterisk shows the position of greatest eclipse, and another asterisk shows the point on earth where the sun is at the zenith at the time of greatest eclipse. Explanation can be found at the NASA Eclipse Web Site.[1]
Each template begins with "This eclipse is..." since the template is meant for use on a page about a single eclipse.
This whole thing was reverted because it mentions the templates. First of all, it's not right to revert an edit instead of making an improvement. I wrote an explanation of the maps, and there was no reason to remove that. Second of all, as I tried to explain in my edit comments, the article is not good the way it is. Each template says "This eclipse is a member of...". That doesn't apply here -- it's not an article about a particular eclipse. I thought of modifying the template, but it is appropriate for the template to say that. They're meant for articles about particular eclipses. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 17:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there! I did just replace the lead image because it is a bit lacking in quality, since it shows at best the solar prominances, but not the complete solar corona with its streamers completely visible, and even the Moon being visible theough earthshine. The following image is what I added and got taken out again.
I might even suggest to have at the top the other image I added where there is the whole scenery of the eclipse visible; but I get it that a wide angle photo dwarfs the sun/moon. Maybe someone shares what I tried to do. Nsae Comp (talk) 02:31, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
An HDR stacked composition will yield a cartoonish x-ray compression of what it looked like visually, and thus is not suitable to lead the story, although it may be interesting and informative in the scientific sense. Hence as a lead, one would typically choose a mid-corona exposure that necessarily omits surface features and best approximates the naked-eye visual impression, and slightly blows out the inner corona. This is what eclipses look like to the eye. — @User:Rkinch