partial eclipse
Moon partly covered
A partial eclipse occurs when one celestial body only partly obscures another—the moon blocking a portion of the sun, or Earth's shadow covering part of the moon.
Unlike a total eclipse, some of the obscured body remains visible throughout: We watched the partial eclipse through special glasses.
The term extends to any incomplete blocking or overshadowing.
- penumbraRegion of partial illumination
- occultationCelestial body blocking another
- transitMovement between places
- sliverThin split-off piece
- shadowLight blocked by object
sun and moon · crescent · orbit · coverage · obscuration · limb · percentage · syzygy · corona · path of totality · alignment · incomplete · telescope · inclination · bite · annular · dimming · moon
- sunsol, solar, sunlight, sunspots, sunshine
- eclipsestotality, corona, umbra, penumbra, solar corona
- celestial eventsmeteor shower, supernova, aurora borealis, equinox, comet
- lunar cyclesfull moon, new moon, crescent moon, half moon, waxing crescent
- Binary Starsbinary star, binary stars, double star, double stars, barycenter
degree of obscuration
partial eclipsetotal eclipse
Complete blocking of light
totality · annular eclipse · total solar eclipse · total lunar eclipse