The entire world should be able to catch a glimpse of the annular eclipse thanks to the online Slooh Space Camera. The Hawaiian Islands, other parts of Australia, the southern Philippines, eastern Indonesia, other areas in Papua New Guinea and a small part of New Zealand will get at least a partial show, Williams College officials said. Other nearby parts of the world will be able to see a partial solar eclipse, if weather permits. The path of annularity passes through parts of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.
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While nearly 95 percent of the sun will be covered by the moon at the eclipse’s peak, the sky will not be noticeably darker to the naked eye at any point, explained Williams College officials in Williamstown, Mass.įor this reason, special protective lenses, camera and telescope filters and other methods of protection should be used in order to safely watch the eclipse even during full annularity, when the sun is silhouetting the moon. “Solar eclipses can be inspirational to students and others, so it is interesting to have everyone view the eclipse, but only safe methods of viewing should be used,” Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College and chair of the International Astronomical Union’s working group on eclipses, said in a statement.
Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible in certain parts of Australia and the Southern Pacific Ocean, where the local time will be Friday. The ring-shaped solar eclipse , known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday (May 9 and 10) Eastern time. The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week - a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic “ring of fire” in the daytime sky.
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