SEGA TOYS DISC FOR STAR THEATER - TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

SEGA TOYS DISC FOR STAR THEATER - TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

The discs for the Star Theatre home planetarium let you travel to many different parts of the universe from the comfort of your own home!

Total Solar Eclipse
Total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth on average every 18 months. But on a given place on Earth, they only occur once every 360 to 410 years. And even then, with a speed of the Moon's shadow of over 1700 km/h, they only last up to 7 minutes and 30 seconds.

Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth. Only at new moon, the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth, an alignment referred to as syzygy. The Moon's orbit is tilted at over 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Due to this, the Moon's umbra usually misses the Earth.

Even when the Moon's orbit cross Earth's ecliptic plane, the Moon is not always close enough to the Earth. Because of its elliptical path, the Moon might be too far to block the Sun entirely, leading only to partial or annular eclipse.

Even though eclipses are a natural phenomenon, its infrequence often led people to attribute them to supernatural causes. However even for people, who are perfectly aware of its astronomical explanation, solar eclipses are something special. Eclipse chasers travel hours to remote locations to observe solar eclipses.