Friday, May 10, 2013

"Ring of Fire": in Australia watched a solar eclipse. Infographics - BBC News

over the South Pacific rose “ring of fire”: this is called this year’s first solar eclipse. It was clearly visible from Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific islands. In the morning, local time Moon has closed 95 percent of the sun: there was only a bright orange circle. It is the very “Ring of Fire”. In order to see the eclipse, people with binoculars advance took the best places in the mountains and on the coast.

However, in major cities in Australia – Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide – the sight was not as impressive: mega-cities are far south of the equator. The best point to observe this natural phenomenon has been on the islands of Kiribati are they to seven thousand kilometers to the north-east of Australia and two thousand miles south of Hawaii. The next time a similar phenomenon can be seen only in 22 years, “circular” eclipse, scientists say, happen in five times less likely to complete when the moon completely covers the sun, the “Russia 24″.

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