Assertion: eclipse | /r/HasProperty | total
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Besselian elements are used to predict whether an eclipse will be partial, annular, or total (or annular/total), and what the eclipse circumstances will be at any given location.:Chapter 11 Calculations with Besselian elements can determine the exact shape of the umbra's shadow on the Earth's surface.
text: If the eclipse is a total one and circumstances are favourable, the Moon will pass through the umbra, the darkest part of the shadow, in about two hours.
text: Sometimes these eclipses are total and sometimes they are partial.
text: Of course, the alignment required for the eclipses (both solar and lunar ones) can be more or less perfect, so the eclipses can be partial or total: for the solar ones, it will be partial when the Moon will cover only part of the Sun, total when the Sun will be completely covered by our satellite.
text: The eclipse is either total or annular.
text: If the eclipse is total then two durations are listed.
text: Such an eclipse is both total and annular along different sections of its umbral path.
text: If the eclipse is total, the moon is blocked from direct sunlight.
text: An eclipse can be total, partial, or annular.
text: An eclipse can be total, partial, or annular.
text: Eclipses happen a couple times a year, but not all eclipses are total as this one is.