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Figure 1-31 RIVUXG An Annular Solar Eclipse This composite of nine photographs was taken from the small Spanish town of Carrascosa del Campo on October 3, 2005. At maximum coverage, the Sun is still too bright to observe without special eye protection, even though 90% of the disk is covered. This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon happens to be too far from Earth to completely cover the Sun’s disk.