Friday, April 5, 2013

Solar eclipses


Solar eclipses occur when the moon is located in a position between the Earth and the Sun so that cover part or all of the sun's light. Although the moon is smaller, capable of protecting light shadow sun moon because the moon completely within an average distance of 384 400 kilometers from Earth closer than the Sun which have an average distance of 149,680,000 kilometers.
Solar Eclipse can be divided into three types: total solar eclipse, partial solar eclipse, solar eclipse and ring.

A solar eclipse is said to be a total eclipse when the peak of the eclipse, the Sun disc covered entirely by a disk of the Moon. At that time, the Moon disc as large or larger than the Sun disc. The sun disc and disc size moon itself varies depending on the individual and the Earth-Moon distance Earth-Sun.

Solar eclipse could not take more than 7 minutes 40 seconds. When a solar eclipse, people are prohibited from looking towards the Sun with the naked eye as this can permanently damage the eyes and cause blindness.

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