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Can anyone confirm a 80-85-day eclipse of Venus, Earth, Mercury and the Sun Starting Dec 10th, 2013 "On Through" To Feb 28th, 2014?

  • I saw a computer simulation of comet ison's projected debris path. I noticed that Venus, Earth & the Sun would line  up for an eclipse that would last from "Dec 10 2013 until Jan 17 2014".   Updated, Do To A Re-Viewing A Of A Link Called; "Solar System Live", Given By A Friend;-) I Scaled The "Size" Of My Overhead View Of The Solar System, From 320 To 1024 Times & Entered The Dates Restated, From "Dec 10th 2013, Until Feb 28th 2014". Noticing That "Now Mercury", Part Of Venus And The Earth Were Still In Alignment.?! Mercury Just Seem To Swing Right In, As Soon As Venus Is Starting To Head Out Of Eclipse. Thus Mercury, Swinging In, & Covering Up Whatever Light Was Passing Around The Edge Of Venus, That Was Beginning To Unshadow The Earth. Thus Putting Earth Back In A Shadow, Longerthan First Stated:-( Any Thought's? Or Answer's?

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    No.   The earth, sun and venus have a direct alignment only very rarely, every 243 years or so. The next one will not be until the year 2117.  And when it does occur it lasts a few hours, not weeks.

Rob Weir at Quora Visit the source

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Paul A Allcock

, and have already given good answers. To slightly correct what Rob said, the pattern of transits repeats every 243 years, but in that time there are about four transits - two, eight years apart, visible from opposite sides of the earth, then none for about 105 years, then two more, also eight years apart and visible from opposite sides of the earth, then none for 121 years. To elaborate on what Paul said, a Venus transit isn't an eclipse because Venus is so far away from the Earth that it doesn't block a meaningful amount of the sun's light.  So even if Venus somehow managed to stay directly aligned between the Sun and Earth for over a month (and it should go without saying that this is impossible), no one would even notice, unless they were using a telescope with a solar filter to look at the sun and saw that tiny round black dot.

Dan Birchall

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