Longest Central Eclipses
- Date: Date of maximum eclipse in Terrestrial Time
- Saros: Saros-cycle number to which the eclipse belongs
- Gamma: Smallest distance of shadow axis to centre of earth
- Magnitude: Maximum size of eclipse according to NASA definition
- Duration: Maximum duration of total or annular eclipse
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Famous quotes containing the words longest and/or central:
“The ensuing year will be the longest of my life, and the last of such hateful labours. The next we will sow our cabbages together.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)