 | Garrett Putman Serviss - Astronomy - 1908 - 326 pages
...below the conical shadow of the earth in the other case. The greatest number of eclipses that can occur in a year is seven, five of the sun and two of the moon; the least number is two, both of the sun. On the average four or five eclipses occur every year,... | |
 | Edmund Whitman Putnam - Astronomy - 1914 - 272 pages
...plane of the Earth's orbit is call the ecliptic. In one year there may be as many as seven eclipses, five of the Sun and two of the Moon, or four of the Sun and three of the Moon; or as few as two eclipses but never 1 06 less. When there are but two eclipses these both must be of... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1916 - 802 pages
...aberration, r and p having the usual significance. 1 1. Prove that the greatest possible number of eclipses in a year is seven, five of the sun and two of the moon, or four of the sun and three of the moon. What is the Chaldean Saros ? 12. What are binary stars ? What is a spectroscope binary ? Show how to... | |
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The greatest number of eclipses that can happen in a year is seven; five of the sun and two of the moon, or four of the sun and three of the moon. The least number is two, both of which must be of the sun. 
