Eclipse Stages

2. The path on the ground where much less shadow is produced. Observers in this area will only see a partial eclipse.
6. Mysterious bands of light and dark squiggling across light surfaces around you. They may be caused by turbulence in the air interacting with the last bit of remaining sunlight.
8. The part of an eclipse when the sun is completely blocked by the moon. This stage lasts around 3 minutes and will appear as a black disk surrounded by the glow of the sun’s atmosphere.
10. The moment when the moon takes its first tiny nibble out of the solar disk

1. Reddish, cloudy shapes extending out from the disc of the moon. They are hot clouds of gas billowing out of the sun along magnetic field lines.
3. The sun's atmosphere, which is only visible during a solar eclipse when the moon completely blocks out all the light from the sun's visible surface.
4. Visible when the last bead of sunlight pours past the moon.
5. The path on the ground that is completely shrouded in shadow and observers will see a total eclipse.
7. Flickers of light seen just before totality, caused by sunlight shining through the mountains and valleys on the moon.
9. The moment that the edge of the moon makes it across the sun and lines up with the other side, causing sudden darkness.