Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed Sunday a dramatic"ring of fire" solar eclipse.
The"ring of fire" was first visible in northeastern Republic of Congo from 5:56am local time just a few minutes after sunrise.Arcing eastward across Africa and Asia, it reached"maximum eclipse" - with a perfect solar halo around the Moon - over Uttarakhand, India near the Sino-Indian border at 12:10pm local time .More spectacular, but less long-lived: the exact alignment of the Earth, Moon and Sun was visible for only 38 seconds.
"Today has been very kind to us in terms of the clouds. And we've been able to see most of it," said Murbana who set up the Travelling Telescope educational programme with her husband Chu.Without the coronavirus pandemic, they would have organised a trip to Lake Magadi in southern Kenya where the skies are generally clearer than over the capital.
The full eclipse was visible at successive locations over a period of nearly four hours, and one of the last places to see the partially hidden Sun was Taiwan.
Can we get some of the Americans to watch it without glasses? Just asking for a friend, lol. Then some of them will be Deaf, Dumb, and Blind then we have a reason for Trump.
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