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Dear Friends, Visitors/Viewers/Readers, (Please click on red links below),

At the right spot in Anatarctica or Australia, one could see an annular eclipse of the sun-sometimes called a ring of fire eclipse of the sun, on April 29, 2014.   This is a quick post about that annular solar eclipse, below:

Annular Solar Eclipse of April 29, 2014 (credit: wikimedia commons, Attribution: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC, ATTRIBUTION; PD-USGOV-NASA)

Annular Solar Eclipse of April 29, 2014 in Eclipse During 2014-Observer’s Handbook-2014, Royal Astroonomical Society of Canada (<—-click twice to view)

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 29, 2014. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun’s, blocking most of the Sun’s light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

The center of the moon‘s shadow misses the south Pole of the Earth, but the partial eclipse is visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia.

Animated Path of Solar Eclipse of April 29, 2014 (credit: wikimedia commons)

Annularity from Antarctica-simulated view (credit: wikimedia commons)

~have a bright and sunny day~

Gathered, written, and posted by sunisthefuture-Susan Sun Nunamaker

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