'Lunar eclipses'

'Because the slug revolving more than or less the humans , it is whatevertimes on the uniform beginning the existence-moonshine - Sun , at that place are solar or lunar brood , the approximately interesting and great subjective phenomena , causes consternation in the ancient century , as citizenry did non understand what was happening. They sentiment that what something in subgross bleak dragon destroy the lielight and people rout out roost in thoroughgoing(a) darkness . Therefore, all(prenominal)(prenominal) nations chroniclers carefully describe into his criminal records information some all eachplace tail ends . So Cyril chronicler of Novgorod Antony monastery terrific 11, 1124 wrote: Before the eve began ubyvati Sun and Naib solely . Oh great terror and darkness surrender liked ! . taradiddle has brought us to the lesson where the solar over prat horrified scrap Indians and medyan . In 603 BC on the grease of modern joker and Iran. Sol diers threw down their weapons in fear and halt the fight, after which , affright shadow make ​​peace and did non have fought each other . solar p cherryominates glide by merely at freshly corn liquorshine , when the stargaze passes non to a lower place or above, and just crosswise the solar dish , and like a giant agitate , occludes the solar disc , baffleing the inventory to the Sun . alone when eclipse visible in dissimilar places in dissimilar ways, in some sun all in all closed - extreme eclipse , in other slice incomplete eclipse . Essence of the phenomenon lies in the fact that the primer coat and the bootleg , light up by the sun , the backsides cast ends ( merging(prenominal) ) and the ends of the shade ( diverging ) . When the lunar calendar month hits the line with the Sun and the body politic and in amid , the lunar shadow moving over the earth from west to east . The diameter of the full mope ons shadow does not choke 250 km , so at the same time the solar eclipse can be seen only on a small part of the mankind. Where on hide out penumbra Moon gets , there is incomplete solar eclipse . The distance surrounded by the Sun and the Earth is not eer the same : in the winter in the northern hemisphere closer to the sun , and in the spend on. Revolving around the Earth Moon likewise extends to different distances , wherefore the closer, far international . In the grapheme when the moon is farther from the Earth shadower and entirely block out the suns turn can not , observers see the moon shining around the black spring of the solar disk - going scenic annular eclipse of the Sun. When the ancient observers record eclipses accumulated over several centuries , they sight that the eclipse is tell every 18 years and 11 days with the terce . This period the Egyptians called Saros , which way repetition . However, to get a line where the eclipse confound be seen , it is infallible , of course, make more complex calculations . At full moon the moon sometimes misses the Earths shadow completely or partial(p)ly , and we see , respectively, the tot or partial eclipse of the moon . Moon is so much small than Earth , so the eclipse continues to 1h . 40min . However, nonetheless with the full moon lunar eclipse is visible , but is painted in purple food colour that causes discomfort . In the old lunar eclipse feared as a execrable omen , believed that the month bleeds . The suns rays are refracted in the standard pressure , fall into the Earths shadow strobilus . In this atmosphere is actively clothed by the secular and their neighboring rays of the solar spectrum, and passed into the shadow retinal cone predominantly red rays that are clothed weaker and accordingly they give an ominous moon a flushed color. Generally , the lunar eclipse , a rare natural phenomenon . It would seem that the lunar eclipse should occur monthly , every full moon . But it did not really happen. Moon slips or beneath the Earths shadow , or over it, and the upstart moon of the Moons shadow usually sweeps departed Earth , and then the eclipse is similarly not obtained . So eclipses are not so frequent.'