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Possibly refers to a total solar eclipse of 24 November AD 29, the reference to AD32-33 being incorrect.
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Fred Espenak , MrEclipse, , "I will show portents in the sky and on earth,
blood and fire and columns of smoke;
the sun shall be turned into darkness
and the moon into blood
before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."
Joel, Chapter 2, verses 30, 31 (Old Testament).
"And I will show portents in the sky above, and signs on the earth below - blood and fire and drifting smoke. The Sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before that great, resplendent day, the day of the Lord, shall come."
Peter in Acts of the Apostles This reference to a blood-red Moon, and the following references in the Gospels to a darkening sky, have been interpreted as placing the date of the crucifixion to 24 November AD 29, when there was an eclipse of the Sun, or Friday, 3 April AD 33, when there was a partial eclipse of the Moon over Jerusalem.
F. Richard Stephenson , Non-tidal changes in the earth's rate of rotation as deduced from medieval eclipse observations, , [1989]; Data from solar and lunar eclipse observations obtained by Islamic astronomers during the period AD 829-1019 are compiled in tables and analyzed to estimate nontidal variations (NTVs) in the earth rotation rate. The data set and computational procedures are described in detail, and the results are presented in graphs. The average length of the day in AD 950 is found to be 11.6 + or - 0.6 msec shorter than the present standard value (86,400 sec), consistent with an increase of 1.37 + or - 0.07 msec/century over the intervening period. The latter value is less than that predicted for tidal friction alone or that estimated on the basis of ancient Babylonian records (Stephenson and Morrison, 1984); significant long-term NTVs are inferred.