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The Sun offers dramatic views with each observation, but little compares to a solar eclipse when the new Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth. Annular and partial eclipses are a sight to behold—but totality is the grandest of all (Fig. 9.1).
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Rix, E., Hay, K., Russell, S., Handy, R. (2015). Eclipses. In: Solar Sketching. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, vol 178. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2901-6_9
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