Baily's beads
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Baily's beads/ˈbeɪlɪzbiːdz/
▶plural noun Astronomy a string of bright points seen at the edge of the darkened moon at the beginning or end of totality in an eclipse of the sun, caused by the uneven lunar topography.
– origin C19: named after the English astronomer Francis Baily.
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