The moon will blot out the sun next week in the only total solar eclipse of the year, providing a rare skywatching treat for parts of the Southern Hemisphere, Huffington Post reported.
The total solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, Nov 13, but it will actually be Nov 14 local time for observers south of the equator. The eclipse’s partial phases will be visible from all of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, as well as part of Antarctica and a far-southern slice of South America. The total solar eclipse, however, can only be seen only from a narrow corridor running southeast across Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia.
Next week’s skywatching treat will be the first total eclipse to be visible since July 11, 2010, when the moon blocked out the sun’s disk over the open ocean waters of the South Pacific.
The total solar eclipse comes six months after a spectacular “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse — in which the outer edges of the sun shine like a ring around the moon in the sky.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Solar Eclipse 2012: Moon, sun to put on show for Southern Hemisphere
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