solar eclipse

For the April 8th, 2024 eclipse, I had an idea to track the angular speed of the moon and then compare it with the theoretical average angular speed of the moon given its orbital period. In the FE community, there are some who claim that the object that occludes the sun during a solar eclipse...

Some Islamic rituals are performed using the parameters obtained from various astronomical phenomena. Traditionally, they are determined from manual, self-performed, visual observations. Science allows them to be instead determined from calculations that use the spherical Earth model. The fact...

Flat-Earthers do not have a consistent explanation for eclipses, but they all reject the scientific explanations for eclipses. If confronted with the fact it is possible to predict the occurrences of an eclipse, they would claim NASA are using the Saros cycle to predict eclipses. They would...