I saw a solar eclipse when I was 8 years old. It was amazing seeing the moon pass between the sun and the earth! Have you seen it before?
America had a pretty awesome solar eclipse this past year, was really cool
Awesome! Was it a total eclipse when the disc of the sun was completely covered by the moon?
yep, seeing the shadows it made that looked like crescent moons everywhere was cool
Wow! I only seen a partial eclipse once, when only part of the sun was covered by the moon. Did you use special glasses?
yea, i took a quick look without them but i know it can be dangerous to some extent
Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every new moon. However, since the Moon's orbit is tilted at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun, its shadow usually misses Earth. A solar eclipse can only occur when the moon is close enough to the ecliptic plane during a new moon. Special conditions must occur for the two events to coincide because the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic
Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851
The earliest scientifically useful photograph of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851. It was the first correctly exposed photographic image taken during totality thereby including the Sun's corona.
Background.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth that temporarily obscures part or all of the Sun's disc. Eclipses can occur only when all