February 26

February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of the year (309 in leap years).

Events

Solar eclipse

As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks ("occults") the Sun. This can happen only at new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured.

If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every month. However, the Moon's orbit is inclined (tilted) at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun (see ecliptic), so its shadow at new moon usually misses Earth. Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moon's orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur. In addition, the Moon's actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun totally. The orbital planes cross each other at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses. However, total solar eclipses are rare at any particular location because totality exists only along a narrow path on the Earth's surface traced by the Moon's shadow or umbra.

Aftab Iqbal

Aftab Iqbal (Urdu: آفتاب اقبال‎—Āftāb Iqbāl) is a journalist and television anchor who is from Okara, Pakistan who is the host of Khabardaar on Express News and the former host of the political-humour talk show Khabarnaak on GEO News.Aftab Iqbal currently Anchor at the Khabardaar Show Express News Previously, he hosted the show Hasb-e-Haal on Dunya News before leaving the Geo News channel Previous Show Khabarnaak With Some of Personal Issues. Aftab Iqbal First Coulum Issue in 1985 . Then he works in English media for one year in 1986 Aftab is the son of the Urdu poet Zafar Iqbal.In his Interview to a Channel Geo he Said" I Think That. I never take intrest In Urdu poetry And Urdu Writer If i am not the Son Of Famouse Poet "Zafar Iqbal" . From 1994-95, Iqbal served as Media Adviser to Chief Minister Punjab. He frequently writes a column in The News International. He also wrote an article for Newsweek Pakistan.

As a columnist, Iqbal has written for a number of publications, including the Urdu language Nawa-i-Waqt he completed his early study from Convent of Jesus and Marry at Lahore. He graduated with Masters from the Government College University in Lahore in 1985 and studied media at the San Jose State University in California in 1986. Aftab belongs to Arain Tribe

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