Sentence examples for total and annular from inspiring English sources

Total and annular eclipses are called central.

Baily's beads, arc of bright spots seen during total and annular eclipses of the Sun.

This allows total and annular solar eclipses to occur on Earth.

A hybrid eclipse (also called annular/total eclipse) shifts between a total and annular eclipse.

Therefore, the Moon's apparent size varies with its distance from Earth, and it is this effect that leads to the difference between total and annular eclipses.

A hybrid eclipse occurs when the magnitude of an eclipse changes during the event from less to greater than one, so the eclipse appears to be total at some locations on Earth and annular at other locations.

Viewing the Sun during partial and annular eclipses (and during total eclipses outside the brief period of totality) requires special eye protection, or indirect viewing methods, if eye damage is to be avoided.

This makes possible both total (with the Moon appearing larger than the Sun) and annular (with the Moon appearing smaller than the Sun) solar eclipses.

A total of 36 tests were carried out to cover bubbly, slug, churn and annular flows.

Depending on the orientation of the orbit and sizes of the stars, the eclipses can be total or annular (in the latter, a ring of one star shows behind the other at the maximum of the eclipse) or both eclipses can be partial.

Accordingly, an eclipse of the Sun occurs somewhere on Earth whenever the Moon overtakes the Sun in such a position that the Moon circle, C, passes over the Sun's disk; when the latter is entirely covered by the Moon circle, the eclipse will be total or annular.