An annular solar eclipse
will take place on May 9 - 10 (UTC), 2013, with a magnitude of 0.9544. A
solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun,
thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer
on Earth.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent
diameter is smaller than the Sun, blocking most of the Sun's light and
causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). Hence it is also known
as Ring of Fire. [1]An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
Annularity will be visible from a 171 to 225 kilometre-wide track that traverses Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, with the maximum of 6 minutes 3 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.
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