Avi Blizovsky
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In an area with a width of 56 kilometers in the south of Africa, a total solar eclipse will be seen on December 4. The shadow of the eclipse will cross the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Angola shortly before XNUMX a.m. GMT. The shadow will cross parts of Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique before continuing over the Indian Ocean.
An hour and a half later, the eclipse will still be visible over populated areas in South Australia - in the states of New South Wales and Queensland. The event will end at 09:12 GMT. This is the first total solar eclipse over Australia since 1976.
The last total solar eclipse that occurred over populated areas was that of August 1999, most of which passed over or near major cities in Europe (Paris, Munich, Budapest, Bucharest), and parts of Asia: Turkey, Iran and India.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon reaches the point where it stands between the earth and the sun. Because the Moon's orbit around the Earth and the orbit of both around the Sun are not coordinated or timed, there is no exact timetable for eclipses but data that astronomers can use to predict the eclipse.
Every year there are at least two solar eclipses, most of them partial or annular (where the sun's wheel goes around the moon's shadow). A total solar eclipse occurs on average once every year and a half.
Spectators in the path of the eclipse experience darkness and see the stars of the Sabbath and the planets as if it were night.
Of course, it is forbidden to look directly at the sun during the eclipse due to the dangerous ultraviolet radiation, and this should be done using darkened glass.
For more on the Space.com website
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