A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas . ... Credit Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College ) Linda Westlake Explanation: It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. ... Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. ... Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. ...