A total eclipse occurs when the observer is within the umbra, an annular eclipse when the observer is within the antumbra, and a partial eclipse when the observer is within the penumbra.

However, the region where a partial eclipse can be observed is much larger.

Photograph of full moon during the partial June 2010 lunar eclipse | lunar eclipse of June 26, 2010.

* February 26 – A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America.

In July 1662, he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial solar eclipse.

* August 7 – A partial lunar eclipse will occur.

He described observing a partial solar eclipse in 330 B. C.

This varying distance changes the apparent diameter of the Moon, and therefore influences the chances, duration, and type ( partial, annular, total, mixed ) of an eclipse.

Each saros series starts with a partial eclipse ( Sun first enters the end of the node ), and each successive saros the path of the Moon is shifted either northward ( when near the descending node ) or southward ( when near the ascending node ).

An observer in the penumbra experiences a partial eclipse.

Image: Solar eclipse Austria 2011 Jan 04. JPG | Lens flare used to capture details of too bright motive ( partial solar eclipse ).

* 2009: December 2, December 31 ( partial lunar eclipse visible in some parts of the world ), only in time zones west of UTC + 05.

* 2010: January 1 ( partial lunar eclipse ), January 30, only in time zones east of UTC + 04: 30.

( This phenomenon has never been adequately explained, but might have been actually a partial solar eclipse.

* May 31 – Annular solar eclipse in Northern Scotland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, with partial eclipse covering much of Europe and Russia.

Sarir suffered a partial eclipse after the Arabs gained the upper hand, but managed to reassert its influence in the region in the 9th century.

The event could also be referred to as a partial eclipse of the Sun by Deimos.

A partial eclipse of the Sun will be visible from the island on November 13, 2012.

* A partial solar eclipse occurs.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

Extensive osteoporosis with partial collapse of D8 was found.

Although he saved his life by turning informer, he was condemned to partial loss of civil rights and forced to leave Athens.

As a partial check that the posting process was done correctly, a working document called an unadjusted trial balance is created.

A partial agreement was struck in October 1953.

Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized ( among other things ) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s as well as a partial international isolation.

The Evangelical and Reformed Church was the result of a partial union of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America ( a union of Lutherans and Reformed ).

A partial and incomplete population census was taken in Afghanistan in 1980.

This demand, however, was coupled with a promise of thorough reform in the Roman hierarchy, and openly admitted the partial guilt of the Vatican in the decline of the Church.

While the flyby of the asteroid was a partial success, the encounter with the comet retrieved valuable information.

The flyby of the asteroid 9969 Braille was only a partial success.

The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum.

Autokratōr was essentially used as a translation of the Latin Imperator in Greek-speaking part of the Roman Empire, but also here there is only partial overlap between the meaning of the original Greek and Latin concepts.

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

Under new management it was revitalized and saw a partial return to its original domestic role with the reintroduction of several domestic scheduled routes, because of the addition of two Shorts Skyvan SC7 aircraft, and a second Twin Otter DHC-6 aircraft.

Clines ' conclusion was that the overall theme is " the partial fulfillment – which implies also the partial nonfulfillment – of the promise to or blessing of the Patriarchs.

" ( By calling the fulfillment " partial " Clines was drawing attention to the fact that at the end of Deuteronomy the people are still outside Canaan ).

Source tracking pertains to the ability of some hypertext systems to rigorously track the exact source of every document or partial document included in the system ; that is, they remember who entered the information, when it was entered, when it was updated and by whom, and so on.

Certain European ritual traits such as the significance of the number 3, the importance of the head and of water sources such as springs remain in the archaeological record, but the differences in the votive offerings made at the Roman Baths ( Bath ), Bath, Somerset before and after the Roman conquest suggest that continuity was only partial.

This was originally a cloth worn over the back of the helmet as partial protection against heating by sunlight.

The first partial face transplant was performed in 2005, and the first full one in 2010.

He also believed that hypnosis was a " partial sleep " meaning that a generalised inhibition of cortical functioning could be encouraged to spread throughout regions of the brain.

Steam just above atmospheric pressure ( all that the boiler could stand ) was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity-induced upstroke ; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum ; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang of gravity-actuated reciprocating force pumps housed in the mineshaft.