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‘Ring of Fire’: Last solar eclipse of the decade & how to watch the Christmas treat in India, Philippines & Middle East
Parts of the Middle East, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Indonesia will be treated to a rare “ring” eclipse of the sun, the last of this decade, but people across the world can still watch it online without risking eye damage.
The new moon will pass across the face of the sun and cover 97 percent of it on December 26, leaving a distinctive “ring of fire” visible along a line 118 kilometers wide, stretching from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines.
The ring-shaped, or annular, eclipse occurs because the moon is currently near its farthest orbital distance from the earth, and won’t be quite large enough to cover the entire face of the sun.
December 26,2019 begins at 03:43 a.m. Phenomenon-referred to as a “ring of fire” or “annual solar eclipse”—it will appear smaller in the sky so will only block the center of the Sun’s disk. Observers will therefore see a ring around the Sun, and for a maximum of 3 mins. and 40 s pic.twitter.com/F880trMqJF
— Ruzzel
