Eclipse Chaser Terminology

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Eclipse chaser talk, select a term to learn more.

Pick one...Alt-Azimuth Allais Effect Angular size Annular Eclipse Aperture Aphelion Apogee ASE Baader film filter Baily's Beads Barlow Lens Besselian elements C1-C4 Cable release Calcium line filter Chromosphere Clear Sky Clock CME Conical shadow Contact Cookie bite Corona Coronal Mass Ejection Delta T Diamond Ring Duration Eclipse chaser Eclipse fever Eclipse glasses Ecliptic Edge effects Equatorial Exeligmos cycle Facula Field of View First contact Flash spectrum Fourth Contact Fraunhofer Gamma Greatest Eclipse Herschel Wedge Horizon effects Hybrid eclipse Hydrogen alpha filter Intervalometer Limb corrections Limb profile Lunar diameters Magnitude Mr Eclipse Mylar filter Node Objective lens Obscuration Occultation Orange peel Partial Eclipse Path Penumbra Perigee Perihelion Photosphere Pin hole Polar brush Polar mount Projection Prominence Prominence - loop Prominence - spike PSE RA-DEC Saros Cycle Second contact Shadow bands Shadows Solar screen SOHO Sun screen Spicules Solar filter Sun spot Streamers Syzygy Third contact Time line Time zone Total Eclipse Totality Tracking mount Transit Tripod TSA TSE Two line elements U1-U4 Umbra Umbraphile Universal time (UT) UTC UTM #14 Welding filter

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Small Dictionary of Eclipse Terms - from IAU (International Astronomical Union)

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