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  2. Solar eclipse - Wikipedia

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    It is possible, though extremely rare, that part of the umbra intersects with Earth (thus creating an annular or total eclipse), but not its central line. This is then called a non-central total or annular eclipse. [17] Gamma is a measure of how centrally the shadow strikes. The last (umbral yet) non-central solar eclipse was on April 29, 2014 ...

  3. Solar eclipse less than a week away. Here's what makes it ...

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    Annular: This type of eclipse is the most commonly seen and is witnessed leading up to a total eclipse. When the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, an annual eclipse occurs.

  4. Magnitude of eclipse - Wikipedia

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    (The distance between Earth and Sun also varies, but the effect is slight in comparison.) In an annular solar eclipse, the magnitude of the eclipse is the ratio between the apparent angular diameters of the Moon and that of the Sun during the maximum eclipse, yielding a ratio less than 1.0. As the magnitude of eclipse is less than one, the disk ...

  5. What is an umbra? A penumbra? Here's some terms to know ... - AOL

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    A hybrid solar eclipse occurs because the earth’s surface is curved, sometimes an eclipse can shift between annular and total eclipse as the moon’s shadow moves across the globe.

  6. Eclipse - Wikipedia

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    For a total eclipse, this value is always greater than or equal to one. In both annular and total eclipses, the eclipse magnitude is the ratio of the angular sizes of the Moon to the Sun. [15] Solar eclipses are relatively brief events that can only be viewed in totality along a relatively narrow track.

  7. October’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse: How and When To See It

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    An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly over the sun’s disk, but the angle makes it so it only obscures most of the sun, instead of the entire sun like during a total ...

  8. Eclipse cycle - Wikipedia

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    Series of semesters, heptons, and octons are easily visible. Note that the hepton series tend to remain total or annular, because the interval is near a whole number of anomalistic months, whereas in the octon series the type of eclipse changes over a cycle of 3, since the anomaly changes by around 130° each time. Eclipses between AD 1600 and ...

  9. What type of eclipse is happening in US this week? - AOL

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    Hybrid solar eclipses describe when an eclipse can shift between annular and total as the Moon’s shadow moves across the curvature of the Earth. Show comments. Advertisement.