... The imperial astronomical treatises give some 10 accounts of total and annular solar eclipses, the last two having occurred in a.d. 1275 (total) and a.d. 1292 (annular). ...
... Moon would barely cover the Sun so that the eclipse was neither annular nor total ... value, it might perhaps seem that he witnessed the ring phase of an annular eclipse ... However, computation shows that the eclipse was not annular. ...
... That is, ancient astronomers probably did not distinguish between total and annular eclipses, and they may have thought that the corona and the annulus that remains visible in an annular eclipse were the same thing, merely varying in brightness from one ...
... It is annular in the same way as the eclipse of August 3, 431 BC and hence all the ... How this funny blunder of Fomenko with annular eclipse could happen? ... 507 BC/09/01 16:39 (0.913, annular) . 500 BC/04/19 07:30 (0.274) . ...
... totally, and such an eclipse is called annular because a small ring or annulus of ... About half of all eclipses are annular somewhere. ... line at the height of the eclipse, he will see either a total or an annular eclipse ...