Attenuation of global ultraviolet and visible irradiance over Greece during the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 A. Kazantzidis, A. F. Bais, C. Emde, S. Kazadzis, and C. S. Zerefos Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Wessling, G...

The ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, predicted eclipses, based on the 223-lunar month Saros cycle. Eclipses are indicated on a four-turn spiral Saros Dial by glyphs, which describe type and time of eclipse and include alphabetical index letters, referring to solar eclipse inscriptions. These include Index Letter Groups, describing shared eclips...

This study aims at providing experimental evidence, to support the hypothesis according to which the movement of the moon’s shadow sweeping the ozone layer at supersonic speed, during a solar eclipse, creates gravity waves in the atmosphere. An experiment was conducted to study eclipse induced thermal fluctuations in the ozone layer (via measurements of total ozone column, ozone photolysis rate...

The 11 August 1999 total solar eclipse had been studied using a large array of stations in Central Europe (Bencze et al., 2005). According to the result of this study, the amplitudes of the field line resonance (FLR)-type pulsations decreased in and around the dark spot by about a factor of 2, and this decrease moved with the velocity of the dark spot in the same direction. This decrease was in...

The earliest recorded solar eclipse was on October 22, 2137 BC as mentioned in the Chinese 'Slue Ching'. The Chaldean astronomer in about 400 BC discovered that eclipses occur in regular succession at an interval of about 18 years, the cycle being called the Chaldean Saros. The exact interval is 223 lunatians or 6585.3 days. Out of a total of 65 eclipses in 19th century only 4 total solar eclip...