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Annular Solar Eclipse

When:
🗓️ When the Moon blocks out the Sun, but…

Where:
Where Moon and Sun are visible from the Earth surface

Since:
Before humans

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is too far away to completely cover the Sun’s disk.
This gives the effect of a more massive corona, which is the circle of light from the sun that you see around the edges of the moon.
It’s quite pretty….when you look at it safely with eclipse glasses.
Always get special eclipse glasses when you want to watch an eclipse, because looking in the sun can still be harmful even when most of the sun is covered.

When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, we see a Solar Eclipse.
A lot of eclipses are sloppy and merely give Partial Solar Eclipses.
There are three types of eclipses where the Moon gets exactly between the Earth and the Sun.
Sometimes the Moon cannot block out the Sun completely..
When the Moon is a little closer to the Sun than other times, we get an Annular Solar Eclips where we still see the edges of the Sun.
When the Moon blocks out the Sun completely, we get a Total Solar Eclipse and we only see a little light peeking from behind the Moon.
In a rare case  the Moon almost blocks out the Sun completely.
This results in the Hybrid Solar Eclipse where some parts
of the Earth see a Total Eclipse and some parts of the Earth see the Annular type.

  • While a lunar eclipse sounds similar to a solar eclipse, it’s not the same at all

    An image depicting the difference between a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse.

    Solar Eclipse is when the moon blocks the sun’s light from reaching Earth.
    The moon is between Earth and sun.
    So we see the moon with the sun hiding behind the moon.
    A Solar Eclipse is a like game of “Shadow Tag”.
    🌞-🌚-🌐

    Lunar Eclipse is when the Earth blocks the sun’s light from reaching the moon.
    The Earth is between sun and moon.
    So we see the sun with the moon hiding behind us on the other side of the Earth.
    A Lunar Eclipse is a game of “Light Block”.
    🌞-🌐-🌕

  • There are three different types of solar eclipses:

    Total Solar Eclipse:
    The moon completely covers the sun.
    The classic eclipse is when the sun goes actually bye bye for a little while.

    Partial Solar Eclipse:
    The moon only covers part of the sun.
    The sun looks it’s cosplaying a moon sickle, except still brighter.

    Annular Solar Eclipse:
    The moon is too far from Earth to fully cover the sun, leaving a ring visible around the moon.
    This looks like an actual “Ring of Fire” in the sky.

    And then, for an honorable mention, there also is the Hybrid Solar Eclipse.
    The hybrid solar eclipse is a combination of total and annular eclipse.
    Some parts of the Earth see a Total Eclipse and some parts of the Earth see the Annular type.

  • Will there be an eclipse in your location?

    DateTime (UTC)Visible
    Total Solar Eclipse2024, April 815:42:15 – 20:52:19Total: Mexico, central and northeastern United States, East Canada Partial: North America, Central America
    Maybe West in Europe, North America, North in South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic.
    Annular Solar Eclipse
    2024, October 2    		15:42:59 – 21:47:00South of North America, Most of South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Antarctica.
    Partial Solar Eclipse
    2025, March 29    		08:50:43 – 12:43:45Northwest Africa, Europe, northern Russia
    Partial Solar Eclipse2025, September 2117:29:43 – 21:53:45South Pacific, New Zealand, Antarctica
    Annular Solar Eclipse2026, February 1709:56:26 – 14:27:42Antarctica
    Partial: South Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Antarctica
    Total Solar Eclipse2026, Augustus 1215:34:15 – 19:57:57Total: Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal
    Partial: Northern North America, Western Africa, Europe
    Annular Solar Eclipse2027, February 612:57:36 – 19:01:39Annular: Chile, Argentina, Atlantic
    Partial: South America, Antarctica, West and South Africa
    Total Solar Eclipse2027, August 207:30:11 – 12:43:10Total: Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia
    Partial: Africa, Europe, Middle East, West and South Asia
    Annular Solar Eclipse2028, January 2612:06:42 – 18:08:50Annular: Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain, Portugal
    Partial: Eastern North America, Central and South America, Western Europe, northwest Africa
    Total Solar Eclipse2028, July 2200:27:37 – 05:23:11Total: Australia, New Zealand
    Partial: Southeast Asia, East Indies
    Partial Solar Eclipse2029, January 1415:01:58 – 19:23:06North America, Central America
    Partial Solar Eclipse2029, June 1202:26:29 – 05:43:32Arctic, Scandinavia, Alaska, northern Asia, northern Canada
    Partial Solar Eclipse2029, July 1114:27:45 – 16:44:11Southern Chile, Southern Argentina
    Partial Solar Eclipse2029, December 513:06:42 – 16:58:53Southern Argentina, Southern Chile, Antarctica
    Annular Solar Eclipse2030, June 103:34:44 – 09:21:19Annular: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Greece, southeastern Bulgaria, Turkey, southeastern Ukraine, Russia, northern China, Japan
    Partial: Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East, Asia, Arctic, Alaska
    Total Solar Eclipse2030, November 2504:16:46 – 09:24:04Total: Botswana, South Africa, Australia
    Partial: South Africa, Southern Indian Ocean, East Indies, Australia, Antarctica

    Want to find more eclipses even further in the future?
    Check out this list that goes up to 2050!

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