* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.

The Theban army under Pelopidas is said to have been dismayed by an eclipse ( on July 13, 364, see 4th century BC eclipses ), and Pelopidas, leaving the bulk of his army behind, entered Thessaly at the head of three hundred volunteer horsemen and some mercenaries.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

A corona is a type of plasma " atmosphere " of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but also observable in a coronagraph.

An eclipse is a type of syzygy.

The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow.

The region of the Moon's shadow in a solar eclipse is divided into three parts:

A total eclipse occurs when the observer is within the umbra, an annular eclipse when the observer is within the antumbra, and a partial eclipse when the observer is within the penumbra.

A particular instance is the saros, which results in a repetition of a solar or lunar eclipse every 6, 585. 3 days, or a little over 18 years ( because this is not a whole number of days, successive eclipses will be visible from different parts of the world ).

When the umbra does not reach the surface of the Earth, the Sun is only partially occulted, resulting in an annular eclipse.

The eclipse magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's diameter that is covered by the Moon.

" At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, a lunar eclipse in 1580, recording that he remembered being " called outdoors " to see it and that the moon " appeared quite red ".

On pages 190 and 191 of Owen Gingerich's monograph on Copernicus The Book Nobody Read, reference is made to an astronomical fresco in the main gallery of the Escorial Library, near Madrid, Spain, built 1567-84, which shows Dionysius the Areopagite observing an eclipse at the time of Christ's crucifixion.

Within the text, they interpreted three definitive astronomical events: there was a new moon on the day of the slaughter ( as required for a solar eclipse ); Venus was visible and high in the sky six days before ; and the constellations Pleiades and Boötes were both visible at sunset 29 days before.

A third method, using a completely different astronomical approach based on a lunar Crucifixion darkness and eclipse model ( consistent with Apostle Peter's reference to a " moon of blood " in Acts 2: 20 ), points to Friday, 3 April AD 33.

* 2005 – The Mars Exploration Rovers perform the first astronomical observations ever taken from the surface of another planet, imaging an eclipse by Mars's moon Phobos.

The lists of celestial phenomena started with the lunar eclipse of 747 – 746 BC ( February 6, 746 BC according to Britton and others ), a spectacular conjunction of the moon and the planets which may have inspired the commencement of recording of accurate astronomical observations.

Hipparchus is considered the pre-eminent astronomical observer of the ancient world, and was probably the first to develop an accurate method for the prediction of solar eclipse, while Aristarchus of Samos was the first known astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, though the geocentric model of Ptolemy was more commonly accepted until the seventeenth century.

These estimates were based on the records of the confederacy leadership and astronomical dating related to a total solar eclipse that coincided with the founding of the Confederacy.

An eclipse is an astronomical event.

An astronomical report to the king Esarhaddon concerning a lunar eclipse of January 673 BC shows how the ritualistic use of substitute kings, or substitute events, combined an unquestioning belief in magic and omens with a purely mechanical view that the astrological event must have some kind of correlate within the natural world:

In June 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in addition to their Bakerian Lecture in 1862 was awarded in 1864 their Royal Medal " for his observations on the 1860 total eclipse of the sun and his improvements in astronomical photography ".

The Doctor does some astronomical observations and calculates there will be a lunar eclipse that evening — Mandragora swallowing the Moon — and when the Helix takes over, it will remove all sense of purpose from mankind.

The dates of the two astronomical events mentioned ( the eclipse and the appearance of the guest star ) are not specified, but were probably before the obituary ( 2 or 3 years at most ).

They mention that claiming that the supernova was visible at the time of the solar eclipse on 10 May 1054 is based on an inappropriate interpretation of the translation and is contrary to astronomical reality.

The type of solar eclipse event depends on the distance of the Moon from the Earth during the event.

In a footnote Gingerich mentions that an eclipse ( of the sun by the moon ) could not have happened at that time because Passover is a full moon event, and solar eclipses always happen at new moon.

If one object moves into the shadow of another, the event is an eclipse.

For example, if the Moon passes into the shadow of Earth and disappears from view, this event is called a lunar eclipse.

" Moore was the BBC's presenter for the total eclipse in England in 1999 ( the next such event will occur in 2090 ), though the view he and his team had from Cornwall was completely obscured by cloud.

Despite not winning a PGA Tour event in 1983, Nicklaus finished 10th on the PGA Tour money list, and passed a significant milestone by becoming the first player to eclipse the $ 4 million level in career earnings.

To this event McClure attributes " he sudden and total eclipse of Scots as a literary language ".

The publication of the biography is fixed by internal evidence to the year of Proclus's death ; for he mentions an eclipse which will happen when the first year after that event is completed.

Warren De La Rue's photographs of this event, taken in Spain, demonstrate the solar character of the prominences or red flames seen around the limb of the moon during such an eclipse.

The most likely eclipse for this event was in 1142AD which actually fell over the land of the Seneca.

Solar and lunar eclipse event dates will repeat on this cycle for about 700 years.

While much of this literature was still in the making, an event took place which was destined to eclipse in importance any that had gone before.

The event could also be referred to as a partial eclipse of the Sun by Deimos.

The event could also be regarded as a particularly quick and shallow annular eclipse of the Sun by Phobos.

However, most scholars accept the 1312 BC event because this eclipse's effects would have been particularly dramatic with a near total eclipse over the Peloponese region and Anatolia ( where Mursili II was campaigning ) around noon.

In 1999, in which the solar eclipse of that summer was a major event, 99 people participated, excluding former participants of previous camps who joined for a one week old-oldies special reunion.

People gathered in large areas where solar eclipse is visible around the World to view the event.

Adding to the legendary status of the event, a solar eclipse darkened the sky as the funeral procession marched to Riverside Cemetery.

Thousands of pilgrims gathered on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India to experience the eclipse as a religious or spiritual event.

The cruise ship Costa Classica was chartered specifically to view this eclipse and by viewing the eclipse at the point of maximum duration and cruising along the centerline during the event, duration was extended to 6 minutes, 42 seconds.