... Whether a given solareclipse is total or annular (with a bright ring of sun ... TWENTY-EIGHT SOLARECLIPSES, either total or annular, are noted in records from ... some 10 accounts of total and annularsolareclipses, the last two having occurred ...
... However, computation shows that the eclipse was not annular. ... was slightly greater than the solar semidiameter (953".56) by a ... In consequence, the eclipse was neither fully total nor annular ...
... solar tide and friction that affects the spin of the earth and its orbital motion ... eclipse is called annular because a small ring or annulus of the sun is left visible ...
... which we may reasonably infer that an identifiable eclipse was probably total (or else annular and central) at a known place ... of time are at least comparable in precision to the observations of solareclipses that are known to us from that stage ...
... solareclipse of May, 5 840AD and 78(!) records about the eclipse of 1133 August, 02 ... eclipses, he was searching his astronomical solutions just looking through the ...
... 2) The first eclipse was solar. ... 3) The second eclipse was solar, (4) The third eclipse was lunar. ... 8) The first (solar) eclipse was total (since 'the stars were visible'), i.e., its ...