21st Century Canon of Lunar Eclipses - Black and White Edition

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Astronomy, space & time books

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21st Century Canon of Lunar Eclipses - Black and White Edition : Astropixels Publishing : 9781941983188 : 1941983189 : 12 Sep 2020 : The 21st Century Canon of Lunar Eclipses - Black and White Edition contains diagrams, maps, and data for all 228 lunar eclipses occurring during the 100-year period from 2001 through 2100. The eclipse predictions are based on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE430 - a computer ephemeris used for calculating high precision coordinates of the Sun and Moon for hundreds of years into the past and future. Section 1 of the 21st Century Canon presents basic fundamentals including eclipse classification, the visual appearance of each type of eclipse, and the Danjon Scale of eclipse brightness. Section 2 discusses the eclipse predictions, the major contact definitions, the enlargement of Earth's shadows, coordinates of the Sun and Moon, and Delta T. Section 3 looks at the frequency of lunar eclipses, extremes in penumbral and umbral eclipse magnitudes, durations o

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