PARIS - 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.
The"ring of fire" will first be seen in north-eastern Republic of Congo at 5:56am 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 two percent of Earth surface," Mr Florent Delefie, an astronomer and the Paris Observatory, told AFP. People hundreds of kilometres on either side of the centreline across 14 countries will also see light drain from the day, but not the"ring of fire"."Good weather is the key to successful eclipse viewing," astrophysicist Fred Espenak, an expert on eclipse prediction, commented on the Nasa Eclipse website."Better to see a shorter eclipse from clear sky than a longer eclipse under clouds.
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