Millions of viewers across Africa and Asia could watch this morning (21/6/2020) a partial solar eclipse, the peak of which was annular (over northern India and China) * Photos from the annular peak and the partial eclipse in Israel
Yesterday (Sun., 21/6/20) was the turning point of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Completely by chance, a solar eclipse also occurred on the same day, part of which was also visible from Israel. However, even in the countries that were right in its orbit, it was not full but circular, because the moon happened to be at the time of this transit at a distant point in its orbit around the earth.
The path of the eclipse traced an arc that stretched from West Africa to the Pacific Ocean east of China. The track was also very narrow, and only at its peak width, in West Africa, could it be seen from a strip 85 km wide. The annular and therefore partial eclipse lasts in these areas for one minute and 20 seconds.
At only one point - over the city of Uttarakhand in India - near the border with China and Nepal, the observers were able to see an eclipse of 99.6% of the sun's surface, but even that, for a period of only 38 seconds.
And as mentioned in Israel, the viewers who were equipped with protective filters against solar radiation could watch a partial eclipse at a rate of 35-40% at its peak (the area covered by the moon and the sun increases as you move south, because the path of the eclipse crossed the Bab Al Mandav Straits that separate the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean - between Eritrea and Yemen , meaning we were north of the track.
Annular Solar Eclipse from Taiwan#NASA pic.twitter.com/jhi0QZczcu
— ThsrcMan (@ThsrcM) June 21, 2020
A tweet from NASA that transmitted a live broadcast of the annular eclipse from Taiwan
The full live broadcast of TIME AND DATE
