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Shadow bands

Shadow bands are thin, wavy lines of alternating light and dark that can be seen moving and undulating in parallel on plain-coloured surfaces immediately before and after a total solar eclipse. They are caused by the refraction by Earth's atmospheric turbulence of the solar crescent as it thins to a narrow slit, which increasingly collimates the light…

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Shadow bands

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples11
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

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Shadow bands → Airy, As, During, Emilio Herrera Linares, English, George, Germany, He, Hermann Goldschmidt, In, Sun

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light shadow bands eclipse crescent essentially totality turbulence atmospheric total solar stars disturbances atmosphere seen thin earth's thins narrow due

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Shadow bandsrelated to historyIn0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyHermann Goldschmidt0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyGermany0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyGeorge0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyAiry0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyEnglish0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historySun0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyHe0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyAs0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyDuring0.60section
Shadow bandsrelated to historyEmilio Herrera Linares0.60section

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