Why Isn’t There a Solar Eclipse Every Month (when there should be)
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- In this animation we are out in space looking into the celestial mechanics of the moon and earth, and what has to happen for the sun to be blocked out. And more importantly, why eclipses are so rare if the moon gets between the earth and sun once a month! Hope you enjoy
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Time Stamps
Intro - 00:00
The Moons Orbit - 00:38
The Moons Shadow During an Eclipse - 01:31
Why Solar Eclipses Are So Rare - 02:20
Note: Theories, the physics and numerical data throughout this animation have been simplified for comprehensibility. Objects are not to scale.
For those wondering, eclipse season is not quite every 6 months. It’s 5 months and some change. I looked it up because I was wondering how 2017’s eclipse was in August and this one was April.
wow good job. No fluff, straight to the point
Underrated channel! Deserves a sub
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I agree!
Thank u !!! Very clever and intelligent animation and explain !👏
Very nice explanation and animation.
You answered my question.Thankyou very much.What a task !!
Very cool!
Makes sense
This makes more sense now thanks. I also found out that on the 2 weeks preceding or following a solar eclipse is a lunar eclipse
Please, don't stop making these videos!
Great explanation. Thank you.
Glad you liked it
Got a new information 🤝✨
Thank you for this amazing animation. I knew about the orbital mechanics of moon and earth and also that solar eclipses only happen in spring and late summer (or very early fall) time, but the animation made it so simple to understand. 👍
Not entirely they happen either in summer or winter
Glad you enjoyed it!
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The moon revolves around earth and earth around sun and the orbits are elliptical not circular. Also the sun's distance from earth can be anywhere from 91 to 93 million miles. Two million miles is about the distance to the moon and back four times. Just knowing this it's clear there are lots of factors then add in that orbits are not on a flat plane but tilted as mentioned in the video
There is a solar eclipse that happens every 6th new moon.
Explain why an eclipse totality path has never taken the exact path and location in the past and will never take the same path and location in future eclipses...for example April 8 2024 eclipse will a future eclipse hundreds thousands millions or billions of years later take that same exact path if not why?
I don't know about that... but in 600 mln years there'll be the last total eclipse, as the Moon is moving away from Earth and at some point it won't be able to cover the Sun completely.
Everywhere on Earth has once been in the exact path, not sure how many times but it will continue. EXECPT: the moon moves away from Earth. Billion(s)/million(s) of years later no more eclipses, and billions of years ago, because the moon was so close to Earth, it would just be nighttime for a few minutes or hours when it is supposed to be day. No cool color on the horizon, or hallow around the moon from the sun's corona.
Also, the MAIN leading point: eclipses generally happen more frequently the higher north you are. So if you are 70 degrees north you get more than someone who is -70 degrees (south). As such THEORETICALLY, the probability you get a place with the same path is possible especially if you are really high north. HOWEVER, eclipse paths vary in shapes and sizes and lengths so really if you have the an eclipse happen with the same exact path with the same exact length, the same exact shape, and the same exact width then it is really really really unlikely to happen.
its actually only about 300 years apart before a total eclipse goes to the same area.
@@coolguydoesstuff7876 Right, yes that is on part. But if it is exact path, then it is identical to a previous path. Like if one time the eclipse path was straight in Russia, with a width of like 10km, length of 20 km. The next eclipse would have to have the exact same. So for one to pass through the same cities, then yes it could in 300yrs, but for the exact same path then maybe a lot longer.
@@WeirdestAnimations hey there! Yes, for the exact path, it would take SIGNIFICANTLY longer. But for the same LOCATION it would take roughly 300 years
And let's not forget oribital precession, meaning the time in which the moon crosses the lunar nodes, isn't exactly the same either. How much of a difference that precession causes I do not know, I just know that it plays a role, even if it is small.
At 3:10 your moon shadow is parallel to the orbital plane of the earth. It shouldn't be. It only does that when the sun, moon and earth are coplanar. The shadow is always projected along the axis between the center of the light source (sun) and the center of the object (moon), so the shadow should go upwards at 3:10. In doing that, the bottom part of the moon remains lit when viewed from Earth, so you no longer have a new moon, or moon completely within its own shadow to the observer from earth.
It actually does happen twice a year, but most the time the fish see it and we miss out
Not only that, but some of them are partial-only when the umbra goes just over or just under the earth and only the penumbra is visible. One of these is happening next spring. Some parts of Quebec I think get up to like a 90% partial but nobody gets a total. As stated in the video, if the moon is not within a few days of perigee at new moon when it is near a node, it will be too small to cover the sun and you'll get an annular eclipse like in 2023 in the parts of the US. There are even hybrid eclipses where it switches between annular and total over the path.
POV you live in arizona, haven't been in the path of totality for total or annual eclipse since 1806 and won't until 2205
It’s cause angles of the orbits
Am I right that the tilt of the moon is changing always a bit? Because every solar eclipse is around 2 weeks earlier than the one the year prior.
Yes, the orbital plane of the Moon precesses around the Earth in various ways. The orbital nodes rotate around a full circle every 18.6 years.
No, the tilt to the ecliptic is the same, ~5 degrees. The position of the nodes moves relatively to the position of the Sun and Earth.
@@matthewwakeling4978 yes, but the tilt of the lunar orbit stays the same. Precession does not affect the tilt angle relative to the ecliptic.
Is it true that during a solar eclipse the moon appears to change direction? I can't quite picture in my head why that would be the case.
Oh, cool.
If it were every month then it wouldn’t be special.
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Can a planet like Venus also cast a shadow on earth , btw great video
Technically yes, actually no.
If anything gets within the orbit of the earth around the sun, it'll cast a shadow. The thing is, even if something the size of Venus tried to cast a shadow on earth at its current orbit, its shadow resolution on earth would be too tiny to even measure with anything we have on earth. So it's more of a technicality than anything realistically observable.
no it is too far
transit is too small to cast a shadow on earth
@@hauptmannoffensichtlich2312 Absolutely, and it's called a transit. If you (safely) observe the Sun while it's happening, you'll see a tiny black dot crossing the bright sun. It's technically going to make the sun very very slightly dimmer, so you could say that it casts a shadow on the Earth, but the difference is absolutely tiny and you're never notice. Transits of Venus are quite rare, only about a couple every century (the next one is in 2117), while transits of Mercury are more common, about 13 per century, and the next one is on 13th November 2032.
3:54 As the Earth orbits the sun, its axis is tilted relative its orbit around the sun, and the Earth is rotating, and that plane of the moon's orbits is also tilted. So there are lots and lots of different possible combinations of where the eclipse shadows will fall on different parts of the Earth.
And since neither the Earth's orbit nor the moon's orbit.is an exactly even (integer) number of Earth days, then the whole pattern never repeats.
Think it would of been handy to mention that 1 Lunar node causes Totality and the other causes Annular elicspe cause it makes the moon further away.
What causes the moon nodes to change
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So why dont we have a 2 eclipses somewhere on Earth every year?
Why are they instead so rare and uncommon?
3:31 you mean under the sun
That's no moon, it's a space station.
Proof
@@Falloutgaming29 hate to be that guy but ErM.. TeChnEcLly, the moon and anything rotating around an object is a satellite. In hindsight maybe not a space station, but the moon, Earth, sun, milky way are all satellites. But it is kind of stupid to call them such, as a much more fitting definition I would use is some man-made operable object orbiting a celestial body that must have some sort of useful function.
why doesn't one happen every 6 months then?
They do, though most happen in remote places such as the oceans, Antarctica, and way up north in Canada and Russia where practically no one lives. None of these are total eclipses, and nobody even bothers to talk about something no one or very few people will witness.
So the earth is not flat?
Wasn’t Sleeping Warrior taken to task a few years back for insisting that solar eclipses occur every month?
Among other times he was taken to task.
@@kitcanyon658 I like his asking for a triangle calculator when asked what the angles are in a triangle with sides of 1, 1 and 1 would be. He firsts asks if that is a right angled triangle. Don’t know who was asking him these questions but it was pure gold.
@@crhkrebs : Sure. Right triangle...left triangle....one of those freaking triangles.
That's hilarious. I loved his drunken video where he denigrated and was ranting about the wrong Foucault.
Talk about doing your "research", eh?
@@kitcanyon658 OMG, I forgot about that. He mixed up Leon Foucault (of pendulum fame) with historian and philosopher Michel Foucault. His only takeaway was that M. Foucault was gay and died of AIDS, if I remember correctly. Another stellar performance by Sleeping Warrior.
@@crhkrebs : Right, something like that. The moral is don’t drink and post.
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Who's watching in April 2024!
this video was released 3 days ago..
Is bro slow? This was posted April
this ain't a music video
I never thought I would be attracted by this.
I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I’ve seen it.
@@rudyrangel5910Welcome to the club. I saw both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses. I'm hooked.
i didn't know south american was west of the united states! haha
What does that have to do with anything?
Like if the view is stationary then when the Earth rotates South America appears west of North America?
@@WeirdestAnimations 1:30 Riiight I see it now.
I think the image is just flipped lol
"farther"
AI voice? It said 'Imporrant' instead of 'ImporTant.' Maybe want to fix that. The T is not silent.
Now that I think about it, so many channels use that voice! Wow. I can't believe the only time I noticed it I thought it was some sort of voice actor people higher. I guess AI just makes much more sense! I really don't know why I haven't known that earlier.🤦♂
Nothing on this channel is AI! Not the script, voice over or animations. I believe the voice filters that assist with clarity and balance are to blame for that pronunciation! Thanks for watching!
@@animationsxplaned8835 Ah, OK.
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