Why Aren't There Eclipses Every Month?

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  • @ladsworld
    @ladsworld 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2623

    Very kind of him to account for any moon dwellers in this explanation. Forward thinking.

    • @mifiwi3438
      @mifiwi3438 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      I'll thoroughly enjoy this video even in 2084

    • @onestepatatime158
      @onestepatatime158 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah

    • @thezipcreator
      @thezipcreator 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      around that time period it was thought that all planets/celestial bodies were inhabited by life, until we eventually realized that that was silly.

    • @mifiwi3438
      @mifiwi3438 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@thezipcreatorI didn't even think of that, I thought it was just a joke from minutephysics but yeah no, it's true.

    • @trampwall
      @trampwall 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It would be nice to get a perspective of an eclipse from the vantage point of the moon.... We likely will in the near future.

  • @Un.qualified.
    @Un.qualified. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2576

    My guy didn’t want to look stupid in case there ended up being “moon dwellers”. Love it.

    • @bcjdjjdjfjjdks7889
      @bcjdjjdjfjjdks7889 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      I had a question as kid that why wont’t planets cast shadows on other planets

    • @luinérion
      @luinérion 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      @@bcjdjjdjfjjdks7889 They do, and they're called transits.

    • @mvalthegamer2450
      @mvalthegamer2450 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      They can, if they are close enough. In practice, almost none are close enough

    • @RedundantDan
      @RedundantDan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      @@bcjdjjdjfjjdks7889 That's actually how people detect planets in other solar systems! The method is Transit Spectroscopy. They measure the intensity of the light of a star and look for any dips in light intensity caused by planets passing in front of it (relative to us). The planets are casting their shadows on us from across space!

    • @driftliketokyo34ftw35
      @driftliketokyo34ftw35 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Futureproofing.

  • @romnicklor9167
    @romnicklor9167 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +523

    1:18 I like the touch of red hue of Earth's shadow accounting for its atmospheric diffraction

    • @Vekcrazah
      @Vekcrazah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      And subtly explaining Lunar eclipses without it being the main point of the video

  • @FootLettuce
    @FootLettuce 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +823

    It's worth mentioning that the nodes of the Moon's orbit shifts every year thus making the time of eclipse seasons shift accordingly.

    • @kcrtxbw.4349
      @kcrtxbw.4349 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Ah right, i did a double take on that one. Would be cool to have an 'eclipse season', though.

    • @Vex-MTG
      @Vex-MTG 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      This is a really important point!

    • @XJWill1
      @XJWill1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      What causes the nodes to shift? Is it just a chaotic 3-body system? Or is there some simpler physics involved?

    • @noodle_typhoon
      @noodle_typhoon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just here for the answer ❤

    • @jeremykraenzlein5975
      @jeremykraenzlein5975 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I would be curious too. Is a a constant shift, so many degrees per year? If not, then what causes variation in it?

  • @arsyanandregate7288
    @arsyanandregate7288 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +411

    that last 17 degree explanation was so spot on that my puny brain finally understand

  • @Cats-TM
    @Cats-TM 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

    Personally, as a moon dweller, I am glad he remembered us in his explanation. I do love seeing our shadow on the earth.

    • @JohnnyWednesday
      @JohnnyWednesday 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Stop hoarding all that moon cheese or we'll stop sending you robots to eat!

    • @NeoTechni
      @NeoTechni 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The moon is not a planet! th-cam.com/video/13R-zKGrXvg/w-d-xo.html

    • @jeremykraenzlein5975
      @jeremykraenzlein5975 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So why don't you send us pictures of it? The videos I have seen from low Earth orbit of the moon's shadow on the Earth are amazing!
      Seriously, were any of the (before my time) 1960's trips to the moon timed to coincide with eclipses? It would be cool to see from the moon as the moon's shadow crosses the Earth. I also suspect that a lunar eclipse would appear far more spectacular when viewed from the moon that when viewed from Earth.

    • @carultch
      @carultch 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a moon dweller, how well did Lucien Rudaux do with his painting of what a lunar eclipse would look like, when viewed from the moon?

  • @MIKAEL212345
    @MIKAEL212345 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

    I love it when the "it is no wonder" section actually is "no wonder". Looking at you math books and their "left as an exercise for the reader" bits

    • @Aaron.Thomas
      @Aaron.Thomas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The times it was "left as an exercise for the reader" and instead I just didn't get it.

  • @Saptarshi007
    @Saptarshi007 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +472

    One of the very first question came to mind when i first learned about Solar System as a kid……….Finally got the answer after 19 years😅😅

    • @Michaelonyoutub
      @Michaelonyoutub 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Yeah all of the models and diagrams make them look like they are in the same plane generally

    • @abdullahcosgun
      @abdullahcosgun 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same and I always thought the reason would be similar to what explained in the video. I never checked it though

    • @Pikachu0071000CS
      @Pikachu0071000CS 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Funnily 19 years is a pretty important length of time in eclipses as it's the length of a Soros cycle iirc

    • @thelibyanplzcomeback
      @thelibyanplzcomeback 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You never bothered to look it up?

    • @Ankhyl
      @Ankhyl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same for me, but i came up with the answer myself 5 minutes after at 8-10 year old

  • @kiboplua
    @kiboplua 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    this video felt very nostalgic with the double bass and the talking pace, just like 10 years ago videos. i like it this way ❤️

  • @BassBadA
    @BassBadA 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I asked myself this EXACT same question after April 8th's eclipse. THANK YOU FOR SUCH A GREAT EXPLANATION DUDE!

  • @moontravellerjul
    @moontravellerjul 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    i appreciate the detail that the earth’s shadow was red (an atmospheric effect) which illustrates why lunar eclipses become blood moons, especially when the whole near side of the moon is eclipsed!

  • @boatbomber
    @boatbomber 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +602

    Astronomy For Dummiez (Original Edition)

    • @onestepatatime158
      @onestepatatime158 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah

    • @GandalfTheTsaagan
      @GandalfTheTsaagan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Astronomy for Dummieth

    • @CadetGriffin
      @CadetGriffin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      *Astrophysics for Morons*
      but planets are plants
      and gravity is gravy
      and Uranus is... oh my gosh!

    • @IcyTea
      @IcyTea 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      true..

    • @nrxtfwd
      @nrxtfwd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hey its you! ive used ur open source modules before, very helpful 👺

  • @undre-ah
    @undre-ah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    Finally a great return to a geocentric model at 1:44 ! 😜 Copernicus please acknowledge your defeat!

    • @tschantz
      @tschantz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Technically the Earth and sun orbit a point in space between them since the sun also moves (depending on where Jupiter and Saturn are). So geocentricity and heliocentricity are both wrong.

    • @undre-ah
      @undre-ah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@tschantz, I know. I was just making a joke about the fact, that for the sake of easier representation, a geocentric model has been used! Anyway, about the point you are making, is this gravitational centre ever outside the diameter of the sun? It's a genuine question.

    • @liamwalsh4008
      @liamwalsh4008 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@undre-ah I was just going to say that, I'd be very surprised if the barycentre ever lay outside the diameter of the sun, which makes it a moot distinction when talking about heliocentricity.

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He's a physicist, right? Changing reference frames is sort of second nature ;)

    • @tschantz
      @tschantz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@undre-ah From spaceplace.nasa.gov: “Our solar system's barycenter constantly changes position. Its position depends on where the planets are in their orbits. The solar system's barycenter can range from being near the center of the sun to being outside the surface of the sun. As the sun orbits this moving barycenter, it wobbles around.”

  •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    It makes total sense in retrospect, but I had never considered that every solar eclipse HAS to have a new moon, and every lunar eclipse HAS to have a full moon.

    • @theonlylolking
      @theonlylolking 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Must, the word you are looking for is MUST

    • @1234567895182
      @1234567895182 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@theonlylolkingpotato potato

  • @christophersheffield9574
    @christophersheffield9574 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Jason Gibson did a video covering this a few days ago too. Since I was 6 years old I felt I was pretty astute with astronomy but both of you blew my mind this week.

  • @Bananaramaaah
    @Bananaramaaah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i feel like i haven't seen a youtube video by you in a year or two. Thanks for educating - loved your channel back then, still love it. Thanks for everything.

  • @JesterOC
    @JesterOC 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    That was amazingly clear

  • @azertytores
    @azertytores 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Simple, clear, effective, I love it!

  • @Phoenix_eleven
    @Phoenix_eleven 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +240

    We do live in a 3d world guys

    • @onestepatatime158
      @onestepatatime158 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Maybe

    • @amihartz
      @amihartz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      says the person in my 2d computer screen

    • @volodyadykun6490
      @volodyadykun6490 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Solar system is pretty flat though

    • @DasHackii
      @DasHackii 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      truly a multidimensional experience being provided here

    • @glennac
      @glennac 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let’s see: Mercury…Venus…Earth! I guess you’re right. 😃

  • @WahrheitMachtFrei.
    @WahrheitMachtFrei. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I love how the childish depictions are so seamlessly and professionally animated, so much so that you don't even notice the transition. Very clever on the part of the animators.

  • @MoPaTography
    @MoPaTography 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I've missed short and sweet Minute Physics videos like this!

  • @darthjarjar6756
    @darthjarjar6756 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Kudos to the animation. One of your best.

  • @juanplopes
    @juanplopes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    "Her shadow falls upon the earth” sounds like a biblical passage 😂

    • @Maegnas99
      @Maegnas99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Please, as if anyone whos stories ended up in a bible knew anything that was happening more than 10 feet above their heads.

    • @jefffinkbonner9551
      @jefffinkbonner9551 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It does and is actually a really beautiful and pleasant way of writing. It’s that old-timey manner of personifying objects and then using the feminine or masculine pronouns. The moon seems to have always been perceived as feminine (luna in Spanish.)

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@jefffinkbonner9551 except in Japan, where the Sun is the goddess Amaterasu and the Moon is her husband

    • @benjaminkurokawa7970
      @benjaminkurokawa7970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Maegnas99 im 14 and this is deep

    • @westhuizenarchives2614
      @westhuizenarchives2614 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe because early astronomers and most scientists who started the major fields of Academia were Christian.

  • @ThePov88
    @ThePov88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you. My 9 year old asked this question a few weeks ago. I'm going to show him this video. So clearly and simply explained.

  • @TheOtherSteel
    @TheOtherSteel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for posting a new video! I greatly enjoy watching minutephysics-style content. This video finally explained to me the exact reason eclipses occur. Fantastic!

  • @Timmzy27
    @Timmzy27 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The moons orbit got a wonk and only 2 nodes, nodes and wonk need to align for an eclipse
    #RespectTheWonk

  • @josephtixier2404
    @josephtixier2404 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I would love to see more of these. Before demonstrations were made with formula, it was all text and some even rhymed. From Pythagore to Pascal, there has to be some short and elegant demonstratioins like this. That was great !

  • @drewbewho
    @drewbewho 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is beautiful work. Well done.
    The dialog, the double bass, the deliberately cartoonish sketches, the animation. Nice video.
    Or in modern day vernacular: this be low key da best no cap.
    I did pose myself this very question following the recent eclipse, and had my reasoning confirmed by this, and fergusons explanations.

  • @Bronze_Age_Sea_Person
    @Bronze_Age_Sea_Person 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Could you make a video explaining the Saros cycles too? They are related to the eclipses as well.

  • @Davanthall
    @Davanthall 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's not often minutephysics has to result to using 3D animations. So cool to see!

    • @jeffwei
      @jeffwei 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Resort*

  • @CaioAletroca
    @CaioAletroca 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This question pursued me as a kid. Since I learned about the celestial bodies and eclipses I made the same question (at around 7 to 8 years old), but the teacher for some reason explained in way I didn't understand, probably something around "because of seasons". WTF
    I kept in my mind but only after two years later asking another teacher about it, while trying to draw the moon and earth in the air with my hands, she just said "because they aren't aligned, they are spinning on different planes". It just clicked for me.

  • @CarloPiana
    @CarloPiana 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Simple and straightforward. I knew that was the reason, but here the visuals and clarity make a great explanation. Way better than my astronomy class at High school.

  • @ddmarty
    @ddmarty 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the way you explain things. I could also listen to you narrate all day.

  • @Weretyu7777
    @Weretyu7777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My man Ferguson knew that we'd land on the moon someday and decided to account for it in his explanation. Smart man, he was.

  • @GuyPerson-jt9tv
    @GuyPerson-jt9tv 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I need like an entire documentary just filled with diagrams of the earth, sun, and moon to fully wrap my brain around the way they all move around. 😵‍💫

  • @StudyAcc-pn7kc
    @StudyAcc-pn7kc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I thought of this question the very first day we were taught about eclipses 🤔
    But when I asked my teacher, she said that my question was stupid but I never could understand what was wrong in my doubt
    I revised the topic again and again but still couldn’t seem to understand why we don’t have eclipses every month
    We were never taught about the tilted orbit of the moon
    Soon, I completely forgot about my doubt and moved on
    Now, I feel relieved to have finally found the answer after 8 years 🤚
    Thanks a lot! ❤

    • @petatirrumator3005
      @petatirrumator3005 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So incredible that we live in a age where you can just watch a video and understand it instead of relying on some ignorant teacher.

    • @stevevernon1978
      @stevevernon1978 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      and now you are reminded that teachers are not known for "knowing stuff" but rather for "teaching stuff"

    • @carultch
      @carultch 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What a teacher should do, is have a question box for all the questions the students ask that the teacher doesn't know at the time the question is asked, but will look into later.
      This isn't a stupid question. This is an excellent question, since it promotes the need to think in all 3 dimensions, and understand a bigger picture of reality.

    • @sailorman8668
      @sailorman8668 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The trouble with teachers, is that in general, they aren't actually that smart I'm afraid.

  • @markzambelli
    @markzambelli 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This vid was 250 yrs in the making and delivered in under two and a half minutes, and so well at that.

  • @Jakeski87
    @Jakeski87 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love minute physics. Thank you for the content.

  • @fjaviermo
    @fjaviermo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Best eclipse explanation EVER

  • @primenumberbuster404
    @primenumberbuster404 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Both Veritasium and Minute Physics uploaded yipeee!

  • @mrseaweed1000
    @mrseaweed1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting topic, short, to the point, cool drawings, and simple but clear explanation. This is minutephysics at its best

  • @seljer
    @seljer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The animation in this video was top notch! Great work!

  • @Hypercube1729
    @Hypercube1729 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Finally I actually fully understood a *minutephysics* video! Praise be moonwellers 💯💫

  • @voldlifilm
    @voldlifilm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That is so elegantly described. I love it. It borders on art.

  • @Sambenmaggie
    @Sambenmaggie 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing and intuitive animation at the end. Great work!

  • @area415
    @area415 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank goodness for the Playback Speed feature on YT. My kids loved the video at 0.75x.

  • @VicJang
    @VicJang 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video!! Makes me feel incredibly respectful and humble to know that someone 250 years ago can write such a accurate and detailed explanation for this. The that that human is able to propagate knowledge to the future generations truly sets us apart from other species on the planet doesn’t it? Amazing!

  • @nathanstafford8412
    @nathanstafford8412 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In short, space isn't a flat plane. Therefore, eclipses can only happen when the moon lines up with the sun and the earth such to create a straight line.

  • @werdwerdus
    @werdwerdus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    still one of the best science channels

  • @BjornStrausstrup
    @BjornStrausstrup 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice to hear from you after a while! Keep going bro 🤝🏻

  • @marcosmith6613
    @marcosmith6613 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks

  • @thefanboy3285
    @thefanboy3285 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh ! So that's why ! Thank you for the explanation.

  • @matrixboi0075
    @matrixboi0075 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Honey wake up, new minutephysics video dropped

  • @konekotron
    @konekotron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I still find it weird when people say her instead of it for inanimate objects.

    • @kjh23gk
      @kjh23gk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      English used to have gendered words just like French, German, etc does today. RobWords did a great video on it (Why doesn't English have genders? Well... it did!). There are still some holdovers, such as ships and (in this case) celestial bodies.

    • @theonlylolking
      @theonlylolking 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In ye olden days by default any inanimate object is a woman while any animate object is a man.

    • @konekotron
      @konekotron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah, I dunno I just use it for celestial bodies and ships. I didn’t know that English used to do that way in the past. That’s interesting.

    •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Come on, it´s the Moon! Show some respect! hehe.

    • @jeremykraenzlein5975
      @jeremykraenzlein5975 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@theonlylolkingBut the moon moves across the sky and around the Earth. By this standard, wouldn't it be masculine?

  • @Alex-ve5ss
    @Alex-ve5ss 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    petition to move the moon by 5 degrees so we get eclipses every month

  • @quentinbricard
    @quentinbricard 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video, thank you for this video!!!

  • @American-Plague
    @American-Plague 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I drove to the dead center of the Great American Solar Eclipse in Sylva, NC in 2017. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I highly recommend everyone go see one who has a chance to.

  • @Gashren
    @Gashren 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great explanation! Short and memorable, thanks to the simple and clear animation.

  • @princesshannah7
    @princesshannah7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Going to see the April eclipse and was wondering about this, thanks!

  • @astroluxuk
    @astroluxuk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THANK YOU! This is such an easy to comprehend answer to what's puzzled me for ages :D

  • @Infarlock
    @Infarlock 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finally a video that I can give out instead of trying to explain to people why there aren't eclipses every month

  • @josephmak0865
    @josephmak0865 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent explanation and illustration

  • @jonelsorel
    @jonelsorel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If the moon's shadow at 1:04 is like you show it to be (which is correct), then the top part of the moon is lit to the observer from Earth, or the opposite of what it looks like in the clip, where it looks like the light source is BELOW the moon's position. The shadow is always projected on the axis connecting the center of the light source (sun) with the center of the object (moon). The only problem is that you've just cancelled new moon, the moment when the moon is completely dark (fully within its own shadow) for the Earth observer, something which happens every 28 days.

  • @christopherrascon6386
    @christopherrascon6386 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's right! That's why seeing an eclipse is rare! 👍😀

  • @osmia
    @osmia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks so much for uploading this really clear explanation

  • @NevTheDeranged
    @NevTheDeranged 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Brilliant, I have wondered about this and never considered the angle of the moon's path relative to the earth. It's so obvious!
    However, does this mean that if the moon's orbit were aligned with the orbit of the earth around the sun properly, we *could* have an eclipse every month? And if so, this almost certainly happens somewhere in the universe, right? A neat idea to think about for an SF story set on another world!

    • @AaronOfMpls
      @AaronOfMpls 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In our own solar system, many moons _do_ orbit over their parent planet's equator, or close to it. Pretty much all the large moons do (aside from our own). However, none have that right combination of size and distance to appear so nearly the same size as the sun from their planet.

  • @TheGuzeinbuick
    @TheGuzeinbuick 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Short answer: because we live in a 3D world, not a 2D one.

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I figured that was the answer but this is a great animation!

  • @jbtubman
    @jbtubman 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have wondered about this since I was a kid. Thanks for clarifying!

  • @GabrielKnightz
    @GabrielKnightz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My science teacher made fun of me for asking this very question back in 5th grade, a time before the internet.

  • @YogendraJagat-tw1xy
    @YogendraJagat-tw1xy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your way of explanation is outstanding 😊😊

  • @MattheasJ
    @MattheasJ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Quality explanation. Much obliged.

  • @brianhess5083
    @brianhess5083 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was…incredibly helpful. Thank you!

  • @vinothkumars
    @vinothkumars 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If so, the solar/lunar eclipses should fall in a particular month (in both nodes) or over a period of one month range. But the 21st century calendar shows almost every month has solar/lunar eclipses which might be greater than the 5° angle? Then how all the months have eclipses?

    • @rivenoak
      @rivenoak 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      saros cycle shifts the dates and locations into the west; for example aug 21 2017 eclipse in USA and its pattern happened in aug 11 1999 in europe already.
      you can easily predict the 2035 total solar eclipse dead set on sep 2 this way, china and japan should be nice places to look at. add 18 years and some days and you are in sep 9 2053 in north africa and saudi arabia.
      the april 2024 eclipse is another saros cycle, also set to repeat ~ 18 years later

  • @DiogoScarmagnani
    @DiogoScarmagnani 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting curiosity I never searched for before. Thank you.

  • @boersme
    @boersme 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The books gives really nice explanations being 250 years old

  • @ZT1ST
    @ZT1ST 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Out of curiosity - does that degree of rotation mismatch apply elsewhere notably in the solar system? Respective to the Earth, ideally, as I am kind of presuming this already happens with, say, Jupiter and its moons.

  • @maragazh9993
    @maragazh9993 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    James Ferguson? Amazing. Great sense of humor and understanding of his limited understanding too.

  • @timgorg1919
    @timgorg1919 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You talk like CGP Grey and I love it.

  • @LegendGaming-il4iw
    @LegendGaming-il4iw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How he teaches a such topic in 2 mins , I will like i crash courses . Really loved the video .

  • @josephblanc1729
    @josephblanc1729 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wait... are the nodes at a particular time of year? If so, when? If not, why do they move?

    • @jmr5125
      @jmr5125 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The node (more technically the "Ascending Node" and "Descending Node") are constant relative to the orbit of the moon.
      However, as the _Earth_ orbits the _Sun_, the position of the moons AN / DN varies with relative to the Sun.

    • @theastuteangler
      @theastuteangler 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      the nodes are the points of intersection between the moon's orbit and the earth's orbit (i.e. where the moon's path crosses the earth's path. like a gyroscope. relative to the moon or the earth, the nodes dont move. relative to a spaceman observing the entire solar system, the nodes appear to move with earth's orbit.

    • @thenefariousnerd7910
      @thenefariousnerd7910 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The moon does not cross the nodes of its orbit at the same time every year. The moon undergoes “nodal precession” (like the precession of a gyroscope) which means that the positions of the nodes gradually orbit Earth in such a way that they complete a full rotation every 18.6 years. The upshot is that the two dates each year that a solar eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth drifts back in the calendar each year by about 19 days (+/- 17 days).

    • @theastuteangler
      @theastuteangler 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thenefariousnerd7910 thank you for this!

  • @KeithMoon1980
    @KeithMoon1980 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've wondered this for ages! Thank you

  • @FridoGrahnify
    @FridoGrahnify 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A perfect explanation, thank you!

  • @Demirbaykus
    @Demirbaykus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing, short and damn informative. You got a sub

  • @MegaOttaviano
    @MegaOttaviano 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    heh this is PRECISELY the kind of visual explanation I have been longing for for years! Thanks a lot!

  • @flechette3782
    @flechette3782 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those 1757 illustrations are awesome.

  • @LaughingOrange
    @LaughingOrange 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    An interesting question which I never considered. My first thought was that it simply didn't happen over land, but I see now that my hypothesis was wrong.

  • @MattRioux-t2n
    @MattRioux-t2n 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Also, the earth has a lot of water. Sometimes when there is an eclipse it is isolated to an ocean.

  • @janus1958
    @janus1958 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One way to look at it is to consider this: At ~384000 km away, a 5 degree tilt can put the Moon 33467 km (5 1/4 times the radius of the Earth) above or below the ecliptic plane. It's really difficult to show this properly to scale. For example, on my 27" monitor, in full screen mode, the Earth in this video is 1 1/2" wide, and the Moon would need to be 45" away from it, well off the screen.
    Another factor in play is that , due to the influence of the Sun, the Moon's orbit under goes a precession, or "wobble". If it didn't, then there would only be two days of the year when on which Solar eclipses could occur.

  • @RtB68
    @RtB68 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    You see, THIS is what the internet is supposed to look like. Educational, informative and engaging. Not bikini teens doing a samba. Great work!

  • @py8554
    @py8554 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Illustrated by me - love that!

  • @MelloWatermello
    @MelloWatermello 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A 200-year-old perfect explanation, with all the math to prove it. I'm so ashamed of how we live in the age of information and yet so many believe in the lies of the flat earth, of geocentrism, or hologram moon, etc

  • @FrankJohn
    @FrankJohn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks for clearing this one up for me

  • @freesk8
    @freesk8 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm a math and science educator. Nicely done! Thanks. :)

  • @jd35711
    @jd35711 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    always nice when your intuitions prove correct

  • @kaeez
    @kaeez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was literally pondering about this the other day and then minutephysics dropped a video for the same, I'm concerned.

  • @darthhodges
    @darthhodges 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So, if I understand the relevant math correctly in most years there is at least one solar eclipse, sometimes two, sometimes none. But since they are only visible from a small portion of the Earth at a time you should only expect one to be visible in your neighborhood once every few decades.

  • @Piemasteratron
    @Piemasteratron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great explanation! Thanks

  • @maxdudek4911
    @maxdudek4911 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Very CGPGrey-esque writing style for this one, with the poetic language and the personification of objects

    • @AwesomeSheep48
      @AwesomeSheep48 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think he was just reading from the paper

  • @bassamxp
    @bassamxp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this nice video