On Sunday, May 20th, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming the sun into a ring of fire. It's an annular solar eclipse, not to be confused with a total eclipse in which the Moon will cover as much as 94% of the sun. Hundreds of millions of people will be able to view the event as the eclipse zone stretches from southeast Asia across the Pacific Ocean to western parts of North America.
In the United States, the eclipse begins around 5:30 pm PDT. For the following two hours, a Moon-shaped portion of the sun will go into hiding. Greatest coverage occurs around 6:30 pm PDT.
If you are going to observe the eclipse with something other that the human eye, please be extremely careful. Be absolutely sure that any telescope you look through is properly filtered. Magnified sunlight can cause serious eye damage even during an eclipse.
The "path of annularity" where this occurs is only about 200 miles wide, but it stretches almost halfway around the world passing many population centers en route: Tokyo, Japan; Medford, Oregon; Chico, California; Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas. In those locations the ring of fire phenomenon will be visible for as much as 4 and a half minutes.
"The ring of sunlight during annularity is blindingly bright," cautions NASA's leading eclipse expert Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Even though most of the Sun's disk will be covered, you still need to use a solar filter or some type of projection technique. A #14 welder's glass is a good choice. There are also many commercially-available solar filters."
Whatever outdoor activity you may be involved in Sunday will be greatly enhanced with the chance to see firsthand this incredible spectacle of nature.
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David:
This was posted on FB and is a really interesting article. This will occur this evening but we are too far north to see the results.
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