Lecturer of Astronomy at the Department of Islamic Astronomy, Faculty of Sharia IAIN Lhokseumawe, Tgk Ismail Is, Wednesday (15/12/2021), explained that in 2022, globally there will be four eclipses, two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses.
Report of Saiful Bahri I Lhokseumawe
SERAMBINEWS.COM, LHOKSEUMAWE – An eclipse is an event where light is blocked from one source by another object, such as the moon is blocked by sunlight which causes a solar eclipse and the earth is blocked by sunlight which causes a lunar eclipse.
A solar eclipse occurs during the new moon phase (new moon), while a lunar eclipse occurs during the full moon phase (full moon), but not every new moon there will be a solar eclipse and every full moon there will be a lunar eclipse.
This is because the plane of the moon’s orbit around the earth is not parallel to the plane of the earth’s orbit around the sun.
If the plane of the moon’s orbit is the same as the plane of the earth’s orbit, it is certain that every new moon there will be a solar eclipse and every full moon there will be a lunar eclipse.
There are four types of solar eclipses:
The first is a total solar eclipse, where when the peak of the eclipse occurs, the entire solar disk is covered by a disk of bulls.
So that the sun looks black and emits a beautiful corona light.
Also read: The following is a summary of the occurrence of solar and lunar eclipses over the last five years
The second is a partial eclipse, where at the peak of the eclipse only part of the sun’s disk is covered by the moon’s disk.
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