The Story of Eclipses

This outer edge shows as a bright ring of light, and the eclipse is of the sort known as an "annular" eclipse of the Sun. [3] As the greatest breadth of the annulus can never exceed 1½ minutes of arc, an annular eclipse may sometimes, in some part of its track, become almost or quite total, and vice versâ.


The idea will naturally suggest itself, what exactly does happen to the inhabitants living outside (on the one side or the other) of the strip of the Earth where the central line of shadow falls?