Image Credit & Copyright: Cameron McCarty, Matthew Bartow, Michael Johnson -
MWV Observatory, Coca-Cola Space Science Center, Columbus State University Eclipse Team
Explanation: It's eclipse season, and on
April 29
around 06:00 UT the shadow of the new Moon will reach out and touch planet
Earth, though
only just. Still, if you're standing on the
continent of Antarctica
within a few hundred kilometers of 79 degrees 38.7 minutes South latitude
and 131 degrees 15.6 minutes East longitude you could see an annular
solar eclipse with the Sun just above the horizon. Because the Moon will be
approaching apogee, the most distant point in the elliptical lunar orbit, its
apparent size will be too small to completely cover the solar disk. A rare,
off-center eclipse, the annular phase will last at most 49 seconds. At its
maximum it could look something like this "ring of fire" image from last May's
annular solar eclipse, captured by a webcast team
operating near Coen, Australia. Otherwise, a partial eclipse with the Moon
covering at least some part of the Sun will be seen across a much broader region
in the southern hemipshere, including Australia
in the afternoon.
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