What is the difference between a total solar eclipse and a ring solar eclipse?

KOMPAS.com- A solar eclipse is one of the natural phenomena that always attracts people’s attention. There are two types of solar eclipses that are considered the most special, namely total solar eclipse and ring solar eclipse.

What is a solar eclipse?

Basically, a solar eclipse is an optical phenomenon that occurs when the moon is between the Earth and the sun, then the moon looms over the Earth.

Quoted from Space, Monday (29/3/2021), a solar eclipse can only occur during the new moon phase, when the moon passes right between the sun and the earth, and its shadow falls onto the Earth’s surface.

There are several types of solar eclipses and they are always an interesting phenomenon. These include total solar eclipse (GMT) and ring solar eclipse (GMC).

Also read: How Does the Total Solar Eclipse Happen?

So, what is the difference between a total solar eclipse and a ring solar eclipse?

The process of a solar eclipse, whether it is a total solar eclipse or a ring solar eclipse, depends on several factors.

Total solar eclipse is one of the rare celestial phenomena. No wonder the presence of a solar eclipse is always considered special.

When this eclipse occurs, the sun’s 864,000 miles in diameter is completely 400 times larger than Earth’s satellite, the Moon, which measures only about 2,160 miles.

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But the moon also happens to be about 400 times closer to Earth than the sun, the ratio varies due to the two elliptical orbits.

As a result, when the orbital planes intersect and their distances are parallel, the new moon can be completely visible, closing off the solar disk.

There are actually two types of shadow or umbra, namely the part of the shadow where all sunlight is blocked. The umbra is a dark, slender cone, surrounded by a penumbra, a lighter funnel-shaped shadow where some sunlight is blocked.

As reported Kompas.com, Monday (14/12/2020), the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse occurs depending on the distance between the three objects, namely the Earth, moving in an elliptical orbit around the Sun, and the Moon moving in an elliptical orbit around the Earth, so that the distance between these celestial objects changes.

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