‘Ring of fire’ eclipse wows throughout Asia
Annular eclipses happen when the Moon is not close sufficient to the Earth to totally obscure the Sun, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc noticeable. While these types of eclipses occur every year or 2, they are just visible from a narrow band of Earth each time and it can be decades before the exact same pattern is repeated.
In southern India, people collected on the beaches in Tamil Nadu to enjoy the event. The eclipse even affected cricket, with play delayed by 2 hours in a first-rate match between Mumbai and Rajkot.
” Like numerous Indians I was passionate about solareclipse2019,” Modi stated.
” I might see the eclipse this early morning and now am really delighted to see the peak though now it is cloudy,” stated Chandra Ayu Dewi, 39, who got here at 7:00 am with her kids.
‘ Ring of fire’ eclipse wows throughout Asia (2019, December 26).
Students and teachers use solar filter glasses to look at the “ring of fire” solar eclipse at Gujarat Science City on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India
The next annualar eclipse in June 2020 will be visible to a narrow band from Africa to northern Asia.
The following one in June 2021 will only be seen in the Arctic and parts of Canada, Greenland and the remote Russian far east.
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