Titlebook: Celestial Shadows; Eclipses, Transits, John Westfall,William Sheehan Book 2015 Springer-Verlag New York 2015 Celestial shadows.Lunar eclip

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Future Transits,ng for the next planetary transit. As a matter of fact, no less than 14 transits of Mercury will occur between 2012 and 2117. We also note that the first planetary transit ever observed was that of Mercury in 1631, viewed by only three persons, one of whom was Pierre Gassendi, the author of the quotation above (Van Helden 1976).

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D. van Zeben,A.J.T. Verborg,Neuman Branding its way through our atmosphere and smashing into the surface of our planet is one example—spectacular, dangerous, but unpredictable and thus hardly ever witnessed. The other such event is a total eclipse of the Sun, nowadays highly predictable and frequently witnessed by thousands or even millio

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D. van Zeben,A.J.T. Verborg,Neuman Brandnd-one-half minutes during a phenomenon that, with its partial phases, lasted for almost three hours. Everyone agrees that a total solar eclipse is by far the most memorable form of eclipse, yet we shouldn’t ignore the other two types, partial and annular, each of which are actually more frequent th

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Koos van Nugteren,Patty Joldersmanly by Ptolem?us as far as we know. The models of the motions of the two inferior planets relative to the Sun were insufficient to predict their transits well enough to make it worthwhile to watch for the events. As the modern era began, though, several developments—better models, telescopes, better