Astronomy: Eclipses Prediction

Name: Astronomy: Eclipses Prediction
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Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, Eclipse prediction, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Moon, Sun, telescope, Eclipses, Astronomy for

Created byMuhammad Shafique

Last updated 4/2020

English

What you'll learn

Predicting Solar and Lunar Eclipses, Moon Phases, Types of Eclipses with Contacts Times, Visibility Maps and Much More
Eclipse Prediction Astronomy

Course content

7 sections • 38 lectures • 6h 2m total length

Basics I3:45
Basics II8:23
Learn when to expect solar and lunar eclipses and identify total, partial, annular, and hybrid solar eclipses, as well as total, partial, and penumbral lunar eclipses, with shadow geometry.
Technical Terms8:23

Prediction I7:14
Prediction II10:17
Prediction III5:06
Prediction IV4:47
Predict lunar eclipse visibility using the visibility map and view from the moon method, illustrated by 5 June 2020, showing Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia as visible regions.
Ecliptic9:28
Prediction V (Part I)11:07
Learn to predict lunar eclipses by analyzing the moon’s position at ascending or descending nodes relative to the ecliptic, and consider solstice and equinox timings for peak events.
Prediction V (Part II)18:04
Prediction VI12:43
Computing Position using Excel15:48
Develop an Excel-based method to compute the ecliptic longitudes of the sun, moon, and their nodes, then use these values to identify new moons, full moons, and eclipse seasons.
How to use Excel Sheet12:02
Learn to use an excel sheet to predict solar and lunar eclipses by tracking sun nodes, moon phases, and eclipse timing with a trial-and-error method.
Prediction VII10:46

Project I11:00
Project II7:58
Compute lunar eclipse parameters for 15 June 2013 using a semi-automatic method in Excel, deriving gamma, magnitude, and external contacts of penumbra and umbra.
Project III10:00
Project IV7:59
Calculate and verify the 9 December 2013 lunar eclipse parameters using semi-automatic and automatic methods, comparing gamma, magnitude, penumbra, and external contacts with NASA predictions.

Requirements

Basic Knowledge of Astronomy and Maths is enough.

Description

This course is made for those people who ever wanted to predict Solar and Lunar eclipses Manually.

The course features prediction of Solar and Lunar eclipses with accuracy of upto a few minutes, finding type of eclipse (Total/Annular/Hybrid/Partial etc), Coverage area (Where eclipse is visible) and contacts time of Eclipse and much more by using Microsoft Excel as well as doing all calculations by hand.

First method is the manual method, if you donot have any scientific calculators or access to microsoft excel for instance, you can still predict eclipses.

Second method is semi automatic method, in this method, we take some help from microsoft excel in order to calculate some terms and then we can predict eclipses better than the first method.

Third method is fully automatic method, in this method, we just program microsoft excel to calculate eclipses for us and we do nothing afterwards.

The course is made for people who ever wanted like me to predict solar and lunar eclipses and how big institutions can predict eclipses.

If you are interested in how we can predict solar and lunar eclipses, come and join this course. You can always shoot me a message and I will be happy to help you understand the course contents.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who is willing to learn Eclipse Predictions Manually

Astronomy: Eclipses Prediction

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 21min

Predictions11 lectures • 1hr 57min

Methods3 lectures • 43min

Projects using Manual Method4 lectures • 23min

Projects using Semi Automatic Method4 lectures • 22min

Developing Excel Sheet for Automatic Method9 lectures • 1hr 39min

Projects using Automatic Method4 lectures • 37min

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