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OCR: CLIP SE The reduction visibility or disappearance of a nonluminous body passing into the shadow of another nonluminous body An example eclipse when the Moon passes through the shadow cast by Earth. The apparent cutting off wholly o partially of the light from luminous body by a dark body coming between it and the observer, exemplified h solar eclipse, when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth. total eclipse occurs the relative positions and distances are such that an obser ver ata point on Earth cannot t see the Sun. An annular eclipse occurs if the distances are such that, when in line with the Sun, ring of light surrounds the Moon It is a partial eclipse when the Moon passes one side f straight line from the Sun the obserwer and reveals croscent of laht lunar obse plified