Totality is not completely dark during a lunar eclipse because
A) of the Sun's corona.
B) the line between umbra and penumbra is not sharp.
C) of light refracted by the Earth's atmosphere.
D) of tapering of sunlight due to the Sun's large size.
E) the Moon is not directly in the Earth's shadow.
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