There's a large fuzzy outer shadow, called the penumbra, and a much smaller, darker central shadow, the umbra. The latter causes a total solar eclipse, which is seen across a dark and narrow ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes in between ... the Moon casts two types of shadows on the Earth—the umbra and the ...

Totality ends at 3:32 a.m.; the moon leaves the umbra shadow at 4:48 a.m. and is completely out of the penumbra at 6 a.m. As seen from northeastern Pennsylvania, the partial solar eclipse is ...