Sentence examples for Beginning of the eclipse from inspiring English sources

The path of totality will sweep across only two land areas, southern Africa near the beginning of the eclipse and sparsely populated south-central Australia near sunset.

Because the amount of light reaching the telescopes dropped abruptly at the beginning of the eclipse, rather than gradually, and rose sharply at the end of the event, the team suggests that Makemake has no global atmosphere or, at best, a wisp of methane atmosphere with a surface pressure no more than 12-billionths that of Earth.

(Please see "The Beginning of the Eclipse of American Style Capitalism" 01.28.08).

9 55 a.m.: This article was updated with details of the beginning of the eclipse.

And yet, whether the umbra touches the Earth's surface at the very beginning of the eclipse track – or barely misses — is somewhat irrelevant.

People in the Midwest will see just the beginning of the eclipse while those in the mountain states and Pacific Coast will see almost all of it.

At the very beginning of this eclipse track, the tip of the umbra is literally scratching at the surface of the Earth; sitting on the borderline between annular and total it is, for all intents and purposes, a total eclipse with zero duration or ever-so-slightly more after the first 15-seconds of its interaction with our planet.

A Mexican boy looks through a telescope at the beginning of the solar eclipse, at the esplanade of the Museum of Natural History in Mexico City.

Europe will miss the beginning of the lunar eclipse because it will be below the horizon, but totality can be witnessed from across the continent except for northern Scotland and northern Scandinavia.

The beginning of "Eclipse," the third episode of "The Twilight Saga," finds Bella and Edward Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinsonn, of course) cuddling passionately — though chastely, of course — in a meadow full of wildflowers.

This initial phase of infection, until the systemic viral dissemination begins, constitutes the eclipse phase [ 1].