On Sunday
26 Febuary 2017 there will be an annular solar eclipse.
A solar eclipse occurs when
the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, totally or partly
obscuring the Sun. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's 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. It will be visible across southern South America in the
morning and it ends in south-western Africa at sunset.
There will
also be a total solar eclipse on Monday 21 August 2017.
It will be similar to the annular solar eclipse, but with no ring because every
part of the Sun will be blocked from view. Totality (total darkness) occurs in
a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible
over a surrounding region thousands of kilometers wide. This eclipse will be
visible in America (the first total solar eclipse visible from southeastern
United States since the solar eclipse of 7 March 1970). The partial solar
eclipse will be seen in all of North America, northern South America, western
Europe, and Africa.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of
Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet
(2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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