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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tharinda07" data-source="post: 6389508" data-attributes="member: 21844">A solar eclipse occurs when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" target="_blank">moon</a> passes between the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" target="_blank">Sun</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" target="_blank">Earth</a> so that the Sun is fully or partially covered. This can only happen during a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_moon" target="_blank">new moon</a>, when the Sun and Moon are in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_%28astronomy%29" target="_blank">conjunction</a> as seen from the Earth. At least two and up to five solar eclipses can occur each year on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" target="_blank">Earth</a>, with between zero and two of them being total eclipses.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Eclipse#cite_note-0" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Eclipse#cite_note-0</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Eclipse#cite_note-1" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Eclipse#cite_note-1</a> Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any location because during each eclipse totality exists only along a narrow corridor in the relatively tiny area of the Moon's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra" target="_blank">umbra</a>.<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg/789px-Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

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