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Umbra, penumbra and antumbra of Earth and images that could be seen at some points in these areas (Note: the relative size and distance of the bodies shown are not to scale.)“… The Earth’s shadow has two distinct parts,… the UMBRA is the part of the shadow where all direct sunlight is blocked by the
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in front of the Sun, an extreme version of an annular eclipse. Mercury is visible as a black dot below and to the left of the center. The dark area above the center of the solar disk is a
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is 3.7 times the Moon's, its umbra extends correspondingly farther: roughly 1.4 million km (870,000 mi).
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of the light source is obscured (i.e., the umbra is a subset of the penumbra). For example,
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Earth; the PENUMBRA of the shadow is where the Earth only blocks some of the sunlight.”
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to the apex of its umbra is roughly equal to that between the Moon and
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Umbra, penumbra, and antumbra formed through windows and shutters
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defines that a body in the umbra is also within the penumbra.
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These names are most often used for the shadows cast by
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Earth's umbra, as seen during a partial lunar eclipse
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