Lunar eclipse

September 28th in 2015, one English photographer poised the perfect shot. This image shows this rare moon over the hill of Glastonbury Tor in striking perspective. This is the closest the moon has come to the earth since 1982, and coincided with a lunar eclipse. This event will not be able to be witnessed again until 2033. We hope you really appreciated our list of the top 20 best photos of the 21st…

days. A normal lunar calendar should consist of 295 days, but each month in their calendar began and ended with a new moon so the new moon counted for both the beginning of a month and the end of a month, essentially adding a day to each month creating 304 days a year. The first two months were not counted because they did not do any harvesting in the winter months. The second emperor of Rome was the founder of the twelve month lunar calendar. His name was Numa Pompilius. Pompilius’ lunar…

flashlight that descends on the earth. That flash light won’t shines the whole earth but only a part of it. While the opposite side of the earth would be dark, our side would receive the sunlight. Sometimes, a solar eclipses occur at New Moon, when the moon is between Earth and the Sun. Lunar eclipse occur, when Earth is between the Sun and the moon. As your location rotates into sunlight, you see the sunrise. When your location rotates out of sunlight, you see the sun set. If we had one time…

This chapter discusses how people in the ancient Near East lived their day to day lives. Walton begins by fully explaining divination. According to John Walton, “Divination produced the only divine revelation known in the ancient Near East. Through its mechanisms, the ancients believed not that they could know the deity, but that they could get a glimpse of the designs and will of the deity.” Walton splits divination into two categories labeled “inspired” and “deductive”. Inspired divination…

Some people have never heard about the Stonehenge, for me this is the first time I hear about it. However, through research I have learned some important information about it. The Stonehenge is considered as one of the most famous prehistoric monuments that are found around the world. It is one of the sites that are visited most often by tourists. The Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire, England. It is found on the southern side of the Salisbury Plains which are 13 km north of Salisbury. The…

my shooting lane, I hit the safety ‘Click’ the safety clicked to fire. I pulled the trigger. On a typical saturday in October just like all the other weekends that we went hunting but it wasn’t just a normal saturday it was the saturday of a lunar eclipse. I was feeling pretty special because that only happens like every thirty years. Me and my dad sat in the same ladder stand that we usually sit in the deer were just trampuling us that night. All of…

similarities between moon phases? Elaborate: Now that we know the moon phases and what they are, we will build or transfer their understanding to a new situation. How do you think the moon phases applies to time? How can we use this principle to explain a lunar…

PREHISTORIC TO MIDDLE AGE ASTRONOMY Over the course of countless millennia, astronomy has served as a widespread source of curiosity amongst mankind. The stars, planets and various other objects that engulf our skies have captured the interests of this world’s inhabitants, from the simplest of tribesmen to city dwelling scholars and philosophers alike. As early as 32,000 years ago, humans are believed to have been tracking cosmic cycles like our Moon’s phases (Burnham, Dyer & Kanpipe 22).…

the construction of Stonehenge(determined by analysing statues of gods buried near Stonehenge - Hawkins "Stonehenge Decoded" 1965)and they could've taken advantage of the replication of astronomical alignments to perform rituals during particular eclipses. The Wessex tribes were one of the constructors of Stonehenge and were believed to have worshipped astronomical gods, as they were proven to have arranged the lintels to create the observatory for astronomical events("Khan Academy"2016); the…

The Aztec Empire, with its capital of Tenochtitlan and its population of approximately 200,000, was constructed on an island on the western side of Lake Tetzcoco. The people of the empire were, however, both diverse and widespread throughout the region, with a collection of more than 300 city-states and perhaps more than 30 provinces, in the valley of Mexica by the 14th century, many of whom came from a variety of sociocultural backgrounds. While most, if not all, Aztecs likely spoke the Nahuatl…