penumbra, (from Latin paene, “almost”; umbra, “shadow”), in astronomy, the outer part of a conical shadow cast by a celestial body, in which the light from the source is partially blocked—as compared to the umbra (q.v.), the shadow’s darkest, central part, where the light is totally excluded. More @Wikipedia
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