Solar eclipse. View of a crescent Sun one hour into the solar eclipse of July 1860. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Earth and th

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Solar eclipse. View of a crescent Sun one hour into the solar eclipse of July 1860. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. Photographed from Spain.

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Photo credit: © ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 1800s, 1860, 19th, astronomical, astronomy, black--white, century, crescent, early, eclipse, eclipsing, historical, history, july, monochrome, moon, partial, solar, space, sun, system