Solar Eclipse in View


	Solar Eclipse in View

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3-16-2008 7:30 PM

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<A href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/HSE2005/
HSE2005.html" linkindex="4" set="yes">Friday's solar eclipse</A>
will be a rare hybrid - briefly
<A href="http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/eclipses/
article_1445_1.asp" linkindex="5" set="yes">appearing as</A>
either an annular eclipse or a total eclipse
when viewed from along the narrow track of the
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040926.html" linkindex="6">Moon's shadow</A>.
Unfortunately that track, never more than about 30 kilometers wide,
<A href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/HSE2005/
HSE2005fig/HSE2005map1b.GIF" linkindex="7">lies</A>
mostly across the Pacific Ocean, beginning south of New Zealand
and just ending in Venezuela.
Skywatchers along the beginning and end of the shadow
track will see an annular eclipse of the Sun, with the Moon's
silhouette briefly surrounded by a bright
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030605.html" linkindex="8">ring of fire</A>, while
observers along the middle of the track will witness a
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031122.html" linkindex="9">total eclipse</A> phase.
But the good news is that
over a much broader region of the globe, including New Zealand
and much of South and North America, a partial eclipse can be seen
as the Moon appears to take a
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001221.html" linkindex="10">bite</A> out of the Sun.
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