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Chapter 3, Problem 12LTL
This photo shows the annular eclipse of May 30, 1984. How is it different from the annular eclipse shown in Figure 3-10c?
Figure 3·10 (a) Because the angular diameter of the Moon and the Sun vary slightly, the disk of the Moon is sometimes too small to cover the disk of the Sun. (b) That means the umbra of the Moon does not reach Earth, and the eclipse is annular, meaning a ring ("annulus") of the Sun's disk can be seen around the Moon. (c) In this photograph of an annular eclipse in 1994, the dark disk of the Moon is almost exactly centered on the bright disk of the Sun.
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