Annular solar eclipse. Image 4 of 14. Forty minutes after first contact during an annular solar eclipse. The Moon (upper left) is moving in front of t

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Annular solar eclipse. Image 4 of 14. Forty minutes after first contact during an annular solar eclipse. The Moon (upper left) is moving in front of the Sun. This process takes several hours, and may result in a partial, full or annular eclipse. In this case, the Moon is at a distant point in its orbit, and this resulted in an annular eclipse where the outer edge of the Sun formed a ring around the Moon. Photographed at 08:40 on 3 October 2005, in Tunisia. For a sequence showing the progress of the Moon across the Sun during this eclipse, see images R506/432 to R506/445.

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Photo credit: © PHILIPPE MOREL/EURELIOS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 03/10/2005, 21st, 3, 2005, africa, african, annular, astronomical, astronomy, century, crescent, eclipse, eclipsing, filter, moon, october, red, sequence, solar, space, sun, system, tunisia