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  2. File:Geometry of a Total Solar Eclipse.svg - Wikipedia

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  5. Solar eclipse - Wikipedia

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    A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]

  6. Eclipse - Wikipedia

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    Geometry of a total solar eclipse (not to scale) During a solar eclipse, the Moon can sometimes perfectly cover the Sun because its apparent size is nearly the same as the Sun's when viewed from the Earth. A total solar eclipse is in fact an occultation while an annular solar eclipse is a transit.

  7. Eclipse Island, Moon Beach: These places on the solar eclipse ...

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    Unlike partial solar eclipses, a total eclipse offers spectators a unique opportunity to gaze upon it with the naked eye, but only when the moon completely blocks out the sun and darkness falls.

  8. Eclipse cycle - Wikipedia

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    A solar eclipse with small gamma will be followed by a very central total lunar eclipse. A solar eclipse where the Moon's penumbra just barely grazes the southern limb of Earth will be followed half a saros later by a lunar eclipse where the Moon just grazes the southern limb of the Earth's penumbra. [3] Tritos Equal to an inex minus a saros.

  9. Photos: Solar spectators view the annular 'ring of fire' eclipse

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    On Wednesday, an annular solar eclipse created a "ring of fire" effect across parts of South America, according to NASA. Annular solar eclipses, which occur every one to two years, happen when the ...