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Astronomical phenomena EarthMoonSunnew moonoccurtotalphenomenonsupernaturalculturesfrightenSaros cyclediameter retinaradiationblindbinocularstelescopecamerapupil Solar eclipse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Photo taken during the 1999 eclipse. As seen from Earth, a solar eclipse / ee-klips / happens when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun. This makes the Moon fully or partially (partly) cover the sun. Solar eclipses can only happen during a new moon. Every year about two solar eclipses occur. Sometimes there are even five solar eclipses in a year. However, only two of these can be total solar eclipses, [1] [2] and often a year will pass without a total eclipse. The area in which an eclipse is total is only a narrow track along the Earth. Totality lasts only a few minutes. Outside this path, all eclipses are partial, and places far from the track get no eclipse at all. The track can be