Across
- 3. a thin layer of plasma that lies between the Sun’s visible surface and the corona.
- 7. the phase of the moon when it’s in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth.
- 8. Ring-shape; of or forming a ring.
- 9. the sun’s light will burst from the first place that becomes uncovered, shining like a diamond that’s set on a ring.
- 11. the external layer of the sun which is known as the luminous envelope or the visible layer of the sun from which light as well as heat radiate.
- 13. one of a series of darkish narrow parallel bands seen to rush swiftly across the landscape just before or after totality in a solar eclipse probably due to optical effects of the earth’s atmosphere.
- 14. when the moon fully obscures the sun.
- 15. happens when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up.
- 19. the moment the moon first touches the edge of the solar disk, approaching it from the right as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
- 21. the apparent path of the sun throughout the course of a year.
- 22. areas where the magnetic field is about 2,500 times stronger than Earth’s
- 23. a rare eclipse that starts as an Annular eclipse and can change to a Total Eclipse, or vice versa.
- 26. when the outer edge of the moon last touches the sun, marks its end.
- 27. the lighter part of a shadow that forms at a certain distance from the object casting the shadow.
- 28. an eclipse in which a thin outer ring of the sun’s disk is not covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
- 29. and eclipse in which the whole of the disk of the sun or moon is obscured.
Down
- 1. a period of approximately 6,585.3 days.
- 2. the region of the complete shadow
- 4. obscuration the fraction of the Sun’s area occulted by the Moon.
- 5. a person who chases eclipses
- 6. a dark-gray, cone-shaped shadow.
- 10. the Sun’s upper atmosphere.
- 11. the region of the diffuse shadow
- 12. season the only time the Sun is close enough to one of the Moon’s nodes to allow an eclipse to occur.
- 16. magnitude the fraction of the Sun’s diameter that is covered by the moon.
- 17. the recurring increase and decrease in the number of ______ over a period averaging about eleven years.
- 18. the instant when the total or annular phase of a solar eclipse ends.
- 20. starting with Baily’s beads and the diamond ring effect.
- 24. the row of brilliant points of sunlight shining through valleys on the edge of the moon that are seen for a few seconds before and after the central phase in an eclipse of the sun.
- 25. the state of being important.