Chambers, George F. (George Frederick), 1841-1915 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 18
Fig. 3.—Theory of an annular eclipse of the Sun. Earths surface. Or, in other words, to an observer onthe Earth the Moon is not big enough to conceal thewhole body of the Sun. The result is this ; at the instantof central coincidence the Moon covers up only the centreof the Sun, leaving the outer… … Fig. 4.—Annular eclipse of the Sun. eclipse is of the sort known as an annular eclipse ofthe Sun.* As the greatest breadth of the annulus cannever exceed i^ minutes of arc, an annular eclipse maysometimes, in some part of its track, become almost orquite total, and vice versd. * Latin Annulus, a…
Eclipses
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