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solar eclipse

  • total solar eclipse
    In eclipse: Eclipses of the Sun

    This is the moment of maximum phase, and the extent is measured by the ratio between the smallest width of the crescent and the diameter of the Sun. After maximum phase, the crescent of the Sun widens again until the Moon passes out of the Sun’s disk at the last…

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  • geometry of a total solar eclipse
    In solar eclipse

    This is the moment of maximum phase, and the extent is measured by the ratio between the smallest width of the crescent and the diameter of the Sun. After maximum phase, the crescent of the Sun widens again until the Moon passes out of the Sun’s disk at the last…

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