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Shadows to Scale

Shadows to Scale. Lunar Eclipse Geometry . Total Solar Eclipse Geometry. Lunar Phase Geometry . Solar Eclipse: @ New Moon Lunar Eclipse: @ Full Moon. Shadows to Scale. Eclipses Can Only Occur Near Lunar Orbit NODES. Plane of Moon ’ s Orbit is Inclined 5 0 to Ecliptic.

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Shadows to Scale

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  1. Shadows to Scale

  2. Lunar Eclipse Geometry

  3. Total Solar Eclipse Geometry

  4. Lunar Phase Geometry Solar Eclipse: @ New Moon Lunar Eclipse: @ Full Moon

  5. Shadows to Scale

  6. Eclipses Can Only Occur Near Lunar Orbit NODES

  7. Plane of Moon’s Orbit is Inclined 50 to Ecliptic

  8. Eclipse “Seasons” -- Every 6 Months

  9. Satellite Images of Moon Shadow Crossing Earth

  10. Solar Eclipse Tracks

  11. Origin of “Blood-Red” Lunar Eclipses

  12. Stonehenge

  13. Megalithic Sites in the British Isles

  14. Silbury Hill

  15. Silbury Hill

  16. Stonehenge-Avebury Region

  17. Stonehenge

  18. Stonehenge Megaliths

  19. Stonehenge: Sarcen Circle

  20. Stonehenge: Trilithons

  21. Sarcen Uprights

  22. Stonehenge: Mortise & Tenon Joints

  23. Stonehenge: Historical Development

  24. Stonehenge: View of Heelstone from Center

  25. Summer Solstice Sunrise Over Heelstone

  26. Midsummer Sunrise Over Heelstone

  27. The Saros Cycle at Stonehenge Around 50 BC the Sicilian historian Diodorus described a temple often identified as Stonehenge: …“Hecateus [c 350 BC] and certain others say that in the region beyond the land of the Celts [Gaul] there lies in the ocean an island no smaller than Sicily. This island… is inhabited by the Hyperboreans… there is also on the island a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollo and a notable temple adorned with many votive offerings and spherical in shape. They also say how the moon viewed from this island appears to be but a little distance from the earth… the god visits the island every 19 years, the period in which the return of the stars [astron] to the same place in the heavens is accomplished; and for this reason the 19-year period is called by the Greeks the year of Meton” (Diodorus Siculus, II).

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