5 Things You Probably Didn't Know
The planet that has total solar eclipses
What is earth?
What is a penumbra?
Safe to look at the sun
What is during the totality?
The objects involved in eclipses
What are the moon, sun, and earth?
The sun is completely covered
What is the totality?
The diameter of the sun compared to the moon
What is 400X?
What is an umbra?
A device made of a box or tube that allows you safely view the eclipse
What is a pin hole viewer?
Free Space!
Free Space!
The atmosphere of the sun
What is the corona?
The distance of the sun from earth compared to the moon distance from earth
What is 400X?
Curved path in which a full eclipse is viewable
What is the path of totality?
These can be added to telescopes to make them safe for viewing the sun directly
What is a filter?
The bright ring of light around the dark disk of the moon
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
What is 2 1/2 hours?
1,200 mph
What is the speed of the moon's shadow across the earth?
Size, alignment, and correct spot
What are the things that need to happen to have a total eclipse?
Be careful, the binoculars might do this when using them for the eclipse
What is heat up?
When there is a total eclipse on part of the path and a partial on the other
What is a hybrid eclipse?
The visible region of the sun
What is the photosphere?
The name of the straight line of the sun, moon, and earth to cause the eclipse.
What is a syzygy.
The miles outside of the path where a partial eclipse could be seen
What is 167 miles?
Three other ways to view the eclipse
What are 2 pieces of cardboard, hands, tree, optical projection or filters?
30,000 miles
What is the variation of moon distance from earth?
The stage in which the sun is beginning to be eclipsed
Which is the 1st contact?