Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic 'ring ...
Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is not close enough to Earth to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible AFP/DAVID MCNEWPARIS Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic"ring of fire" solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in years.
Remarkably, the eclipse on Sunday arrives on the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year - the summer solstice - when Earth's north pole is tilted most directly towards the sun. More spectacular, but less long-lived: The exact alignment of the Earth, moon and sun will be visible for only 38 seconds."The annular eclipse is visible from about 2 per cent of Earth surface," Florent Delefie, an astronomer and the Paris Observatory, told AFP.
The full eclipse will be visible somewhere on Earth during just under four hours, and one of the last places to see a partially hidden sun is Taiwan before its path heads out into the Pacific.
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