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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Total solar eclipses would be more frequent if a) the moon orbited further from the Earth.
Red Moons are usually visible at the time of total lunar eclipse.
Eclipses abound this season, not here on Earth but far away in the Jovian moon system.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Eclipses are some of the most dramatic phenomena a person can witness, from the darkening of daylight that reveals the solar corona and the spectacular inner planets to the blood-red full moon hanging in the midnight sky.
It should also be crystal clear that ancient adepts who could predict the eclipses of the sun and moon had to know that the planet Earth was a spherical rock circling the heavens around the sun.
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon: An eclipse of the Sun occurs when the Moon comes directly between the Sun and the Earth so that the Earth lies in the shadow of the Moon.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Occasionally, lunar eclipses occur on consecutive full moons only one month apart.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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There are as well suns and moons together in eclipses, sometimes kissing, sometimes paying each other a deferential coquettish attention.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is at its furthest point from the Earth.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Eclipses: We generally talk of eclipses of the Sun and Moon, but other bodies inside and outside the Solar System exhibit eclipses that are very important in astronomy.
Eclipses of the moons of Jupiter were used in one of the first measures of the speed of light, and eclipsing binary stars give us fundamental data on the masses of those stars.
Saros series eclipses are very similar in circumstances because of harmonic frequencies in the earth's orbit and the revolution of the nodes of the moon.
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