Rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia

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Annular eclipses occur when the Moon — passing between Earth and the Sun — is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible.

The “ring of fire” will first be seen in northeastern Republic of Congo at 5:56 local time just a few minutes after sunrise.Arcing eastward across Asia and Africa, it will reach “maximum eclipse” — with a perfect solar halo around the Moon — over Uttarakhand, India near the Sino-Indian border at 12:10 local time .

“The annular eclipse is visible from about 2% of Earth surface,” Florent Delefie, an astronomer and the Paris Observatory, told Agence France-Presse. 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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An annular eclipse happens when the moon is farthest from the Earth, and since the moon appears smaller and does not block the entire view of the sun, a “ring of fire” effect is created.

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