Continuing the series of out-of-this-World views of eclipses.
This is an annular eclipse, where the Moon is so far away in it’s orbit it does not cover the Sun’s disk. Yet it leaves a distinct shadow racing across the Earth called an Antumbra. It also moves more slowly so the eclipse reaches the longest it can at over 11 minutes.
There are three main views:
Over Nairobi at dawn
Malé at noon and
Mandalay at dusk
The last looks down from the Sun at maximum and the ISS and Hubble Space Telescope have been added to give an idea of just how much the event has been slowed down to watch in only a couple of minutes.
