Ring of fire eclipse

Coming up May 9-10: Ring of fire eclipse

An annular eclipse of the sun – what some are calling a ring of fire eclipse – will take place over Australia and the Pacific Ocean on May 9 or 10, 2013 (the difference in date depends on whether you are east or west of the International Date Line). However, to see it, you have to reside somewhere along the long yet narrow track that is 13,300 kilometers long and only about 200 kilometers wide. Outside the extremely narrow path of the ring of fire eclipse, a much larger area of the world will get to see a partial eclipse of the sun.

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http://earthsky.org/tonight/solar-eclipse-over-wide-stretch-of-pacific-ocean-on-may-910

Credit : Velo Steve

By the way Places to the east of the International Date Line (such as the Hawaiian and Cook Islands) will see this solar eclipse on May 9. Places to the west of the International Date Line (Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand) will find the sun in eclipse on May 10.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day

2013 May 4 

Hungarian Spring Eclipse

Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130504.html

Last week, as the Sun set a Full Moon rose over the springtime landscape of Tihany, Hungary on the northern shores of Lake Balaton. As it climbed into the clear sky, the Moon just grazed the dark, umbral shadow of planet Earth in the year's first partial lunar eclipse. The partial phase, seen near the top of this frame where the lunar disk is darkened along the upper limb, lasted for less than 27 minutes. Composited from consecutive exposures, the picture presents the scene's range of natural colors and subtle shading apparent to the eye. At next week's New Moon, the season's celestial shadow play will continue with an annular solar eclipse, the path of annularity tracking through northern Australia and the central Pacific.