Posted on 06/06/2021 2:13:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On the morning of June 10, the darkened new moon will slide in front of the sun, resulting in a partial solar eclipse visible from big swaths of North America and Europe. Some lucky skywatchers in a narrow section of Canada and Siberia will have an opportunity to see the most dramatic part of the show, the "ring of fire" that results from the moon covering all but the edges of the sun.
The scientific name for this is an annular solar eclipse, which is a little different from a total solar eclipse -- when the moon is at the right distance from Earth to completely cover the sun. A total solar eclipse put on a big show in North America in 2017, and we'll get another one in 2024.
The path of the Eye of Sauron-like phenomenon is called the path of annularity, and in this instance it passes over some very remote and uninhabited areas, including northern Canada, Greenland and the frickin' North Pole
The good news for millions of others is that a partial eclipse will still be visible for a period of time from northern and eastern stretches of North America and much of Europe. The below animation from NASA provides a good approximation of what will be visible from when and where. The large shadow over the globe denotes the day side from the night side, while the lighter, secondary shadow is where and when a partial eclipse will be visible. The path of annularity is represented by the small red area.
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Use your thumb to block out most of the sun.
Hmm, middle of the night for me, already blocked out.
It goes right over the North Pole! I saw an annular eclipse in San Diego in 1992. It was a ring of fire that slowly set into the ocean as if being put out.
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In May 1994 a major annular eclipse crossed over from SW to NE over all of the US. The path went right over my home in SE Michigan. Took some pictures, and enjoyed the oddity of the noon-time sun’s bright white light subdued in intensity only, not color. Can’t be replicated by cloud cover or time of day, only an eclipse.
My brother manufactures solar eclipse filters, has been doing so for decades. I can’t think on any other business that allows as accurate scheduling of demand for a product. 1991 in Mexico and Hawaii, 1999 in Europe as I recall, and of course 2017 and now the one coming up in 2024 plus a bunch of overseas ones I’ve forgotten about. I think he’s retiring after 2024, but he said that after 2017.
In May 1994 a major annular eclipse crossed over from SW to NE over all of the US. The path went right over my home in SE Michigan. Took some pictures, and enjoyed the oddity of the noon-time sun’s bright white light subdued in intensity only, not color. Can’t be replicated by cloud cover or time of day, only an eclipse.
My brother manufactures solar eclipse filters, has been doing so for decades. I can’t think on any other business that allows as accurate scheduling of demand for a product. 1991 in Mexico and Hawaii, 1999 in Europe as I recall, and of course 2017 and now the one coming up in 2024 plus a bunch of overseas ones I’ve forgotten about. I think he’s retiring after 2024, but he said that after 2017.
I see God’s work in allowing the sun’s and moon’s relative size and orbit to allow eclipses in the first place. In some millions of years the moon will be too far away to enable complete coverage of the sun. Can’t remember if some orbital decay affects this, also.
I remember that. I watched from Newport Beach.
Was it dark enough to fool the crickets?
I was fortunate to have seen the one in 2017. It’s surprising how much light a small sliver of the sun puts out. A couple of minutes before totality the crickets did get fooled.
There’s an annular eclipse going through the western USA Oct 14 2023.
How to watch? Biden and other Democrat voters should have the best view, after all they are victors. They should take advantage the view by looking directly at the sun.
That could be hazardous if you do it all at once. I tell my liberal friends to get acclimated to it by staring at the sun an hour a day to work up their resistance. They'll thank us both later.
I might be able to get a look at the tree patterns early in the morning on June 10. I won’t get annularity, but all those little crescents are neat.
Quite the show isn’t it? Almost as if God leans over to the nightstand turns the sun off for a few minutes.
The moon’s shadow is always there but since the earth moon orbital plane and earth sun orbital plane are about 5 degrees off from each other the shadow mostly misses the earth. On average the shadow hits the earth about every 1 and a half years. If the orbital planes were the same we’d be seeing an eclipse every month.
You are correct. They actually need lots of practice.
Fly your learjet up to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun.
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