Talk:Eclipse season

Too technical

As it currently stands this article requires too much prerequisite knowledge for the layperson to understand. I beleive I and/or others can fix this over the long term. Now that I understand it, I think it's a pretty basic topic that people can appreciate if explained simply enough. The source material (mostly NASA) is very technical. The graphs (solar eclipse) have way too many lines on them, the introduction introduces many complex topics and so forth. --TimL (talk) 01:31, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

If you read between the lines, I basically think this article (which I created and authored) pretty much stinks! --TimL (talk) 03:05, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

I think it's a bit better now that I've added a non-technical summary (hook), which I think primes the user for what is to come. --TimL (talk) 20:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Also Incorrect?

I think this article is also incorrect. The article emphasizes the sun being near a node. But after reading the saros article I think both the Sun and moon have to be neat a node, (the very definition of syzygy). An eclipse occurs when a full or new moon is at a node. This article emphasizes the sun when (I think) in fact it should emphasize that fact that full and new moons must occur at a node. I'm having trouble with frame of references here.--TimL (talk) 02:48, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

I think this is fixed now. Both the moon and Sun are equally implicated. --TimL (talk) 20:48, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Parts?

What's this "X part out of Y"? Is it just to demonstrate 4 examples? alex (talk) 20:03, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Examples too similar

There are now 4 examples of eclipse seasons. However, they all show the same kind of seasons, all with three eclipses, of which two are either penumbral lunar eclipses or partial solar eclipses. Between the lines this tells me that it must be so, if there are three eclipses in one season.

Most seasons, however, are not of this type. Most seasons have two eclipses only. It would therefore be better to have other kinds of seasons represented. (At one time in history, the penumbral lunar eclipses weren't even regarded "real" eclipses, and then an eclipse season could in fact not comprise more than one lunar eclipse, and possibly no lunar eclipse at all.) Fomalhaut76 (talk) 06:19, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree. The following seems a highly dubious assertion, knowing how rare solar eclipses are :

“At least two (one solar and one lunar, in any order), and at most three eclipses (solar, lunar, then solar again, or vice versa), will occur during every eclipse season.”

JdelaF (talk) 10:11, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Possibly "At least" should be replaced by "At most"?

Also should some statement be added about how often there are no eclipses during a particular season? JdelaF (talk) 10:18, 15 July 2024 (UTC)