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Welcome to WikiProject eclipses, the WikiProject that aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage on solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. It encompasses articles on individual lunar and solar eclipses, lists of eclipses and series of eclipses, and articles related to the broader understanding of eclipses.

Project Details

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Eclipses/Assessment table

Helping out

Signing up (Recommended)

You don't have to sign up to help out, and you don't necessarily have to help out to sign up. If you have an interest in eclipses but don't know if you can help out, feel free to sign up. It's good for the project to know which Wikipedians are interested in Eclipses.

A. Please add your name below at the end of the next section. Type '#' hash symbol and just sign your name.
B. (Optional) It would be very helpful to the project to state your specific interest in the project and any specific goals you have for the project, if any.
C. (Recommended) Add {{User WPEclipses}} to your user page.

Eclipse Websites you can use to improve articles

• Great site for investigating solar eclipses
• eclipses in general
• NASA's Eclipse website More info than you can shake a stick at. The project relies heavily on the information provided here, which is in the public domain, and provides an immense amount of information on eclipses.

Improving articles

The easiest thing to do is to assess an article. If you think an article is important, you can rate it Mid, High or Top by modifying the Eclipses template on the talk page. If unsure how to do this, just let us know on the talk page what articles you think are important or have major issues. You could also leave a note on the talk page, but it will get quicker attention if you leave a note to the Discussion page for this project. If need be, your concerns will be moved to the article in question. Assigning an article an importance level it will help the project determine which articles need to be focused on. Articles that are Mid to Top importance but lower than B class should be our focus for now. See Assessment table above.

Members

Active

1. Anonys (talk) 15:45, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
   • I am interested in finding more viewing information of eclipses.
2. Brateevsky (talk · contribs)
   • Solar eclipses in Russia and in Eurasia (in lesser degree). See my photographs of solar and lunar eclipses on Commons.
3. Codyorb (talk · contribs)
   • I'm interested in expanding solar eclipse articles from stubs to more informative and interesting articles.
4. Cranloa12n (talk · contribs)
   • Eclipse articles are mostly stubs. While this is reasonable, we could do some expanding.
5. Cullen328 (talk · contribs)
   • I worked on expanding Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 which I witnessed and am interested in improving our general coverage of eclipses.
6. EclipseDude (talk · contribs)
   • I think my username is pretty self-explanatory. I'll help out with more maintenance and copy-editing related things.
7. Georgestrieby
   • My main goal is to expand the article about the August 2017 eclipse, and especially to provide plenty of simulations about that eclipse. Furthermore, I woul like to add images of recent lunar eclipses.
8. Glenn L (talk) 08:07, 12 July 2011 (UTC).
   • Contributions include:

   Saros cycle - 18 years, 11 days

   Metonic cycle - 19 years, and octant subgroups (3.8 years)

   Tritos - one month short of 11 years

   Inex - 20 days short of 29 years

   Eclipse year of 346.62 days or the

   Eclipse season (during which all eclipses happen), successively occurring every 173.31 days - half of an eclipse year.

9. Iamthecheese44 (talk · contribs)
10. Cinescienza (talk · contribs)
11. Kepler-1229b talk?? 01:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
12. Ninney (talk · contribs)
13. RazorTheDJ (talk · contribs)
    • Majorly focusing on improving the geographical details on where eclipses happened/will happen.
    • Will also be on eclipses happening in Africa mostly North and East Africa.
    • Will be witnessing the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (moonset) in Nairobi, Kenya happened last 5th July 2020.
14. Sixflashphoto (talk · contribs)
    • I am interested in improving our general coverage of eclipses, and the organization of photographs.
15. TimL (talk) 03:11, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
    • To help provide context and provide relationships between eclipse related articles by adding articles as necessary and adding not merely links to other articles but providing additional context to existing articles with links to other useful articles.
    • To provide information on eclipses that are related to other eclipses for reasons that might not be immediately apparent (geography, periodicity, unique properties of eclipse, etc.)
    • To improve articles related to the understanding of eclipses.
16. Vannevarmorgan (talk · contribs)
    • Interested in adding content regarding eclipse science.
17. FlaredX (talk · contribs)
    • To provide and improve articles about Solar and Lunar eclipses seen in the Philippines.
    • Interested in providing general information via wiki articles for those who are interested with Astronomy in Southeast Asia.
18. HurricaneEdgar (talk · contribs)
19. Hurricane Clyde (talk · contribs)
20. Simbasad2 (talk · contribs)
    • To improve existing articles eclipse articles that do not have much information on them

Inactive

1. CrunchySkies (talk) 09:22, 15 April 2014 (UTC).
   • I will create disambiguation pages for years in which eclipses occur.
2. Mbak Dede - I will create articles solar eclipse on 19th and 22nd century.
3. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 03:20, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
   • Statement of interest:
   • My first goal to get stub articles and cross-references:
     1. My first goal is to flesh out stub articles for events from 1901-2100
        • and selected subset 1801-1900, with data and charts, when historical references exists
     2. Upload charts from 1901-2100
     3. Upload animations from 1991-2049
     4. Cross check commons photos/media associated with each event.
     5. Add saros series list articles. - Series 110-162 (subset completely covers 1900-2100)
     6. Expand database key-fields to link a photo, and secondary stats where available.
     7. Replace century solar eclipse lists (existing ones very slow to build pages)
     8. cross-referenced by related eclipse cycles.
        • Lunar year - 177/354 days (1901-2100)
        • Saros cycle - 18 years, 10 days
        • Metonic cycle - 19 years, and octant subgroups (3.8 years)
        • Tritos - 30 days short of 11 years
        • Inex - 20 days short of 29 years
   • My second goal is to expand verbal descriptions of events from the chart and table.
   • My third goal is to expand uploaded photos of historical eclipses by emailing photographers on the web for permission to include on Wikipedia. My fourth goal is to research published information about each historical eclipse for their individual cultural or scientific significance.
   • A FINAL goal would be to expand historical information in the Solar_eclipse#Historical_eclipses article on significant recent solar eclipses, linking to the individual articles. I'm unsure how far my patience will last beyond my primary goal, but hopefully it'll inspire others to continue expanding historical eclipses.

Subpages

WikiProject Eclipses Work Page (Documentation, Organizational structure and TODO)