occurs every 18 years. Two solar eclipses separated by a Saros Cycle have similar features – they occur at the same lunar node, with the Moon roughly at the same distance from the Earth. The eclipses also take place at about the same time of the year and around the same...
Thanks in part to visionary astronomers like Copernicus and Galileo—who dared to suggest that the Earth wasn’t the stationary center of the universe—eclipse myths were replaced by scientific facts, which of course can be as mind-blowing as superstition. Merlin the Magician, an eclipse chaser,...
Eclipses (Heinemann First Library: The Night Sky: And Other Amazing Sights in Space) by Nick Hunter (Author) examines both solar and lunar eclipses, as well as eclipses on other planets. The book covers what an eclipse is, what eclipses can look like, how they happen, what people thoug...