Click To Enlarge Annular & Hybrid Solar Eclipse Map
On the Left is a Map Showing the Sun's Shadow during Annular & Hybrid Solar Eclipses
Hybrid Solar Eclipses: The Moon's Shadow clips the Earth either at the beginning of the Eclipse or at the beginning & the end. So the beginning is Annular ... it goes to Total for some parts of the viewing Earth ... then it either stays that way or for some; it goes back to Annular. So the Moon's shadow doesn't entirely block the view of the Sun during the entire Eclipse Transit. Roughly 03% of Eclipses are Hybrid. You may see a glowing outer ring & a dark center with a thicker patch of light across the top.
Annular Solar Eclipses: The Moon is centered on the Sun during the Eclipse; but the Moon is on the far side of its elliptical orbit around the Earth... so it doesn't quite cover the entire Sun. Annular Eclipses presemts an invisible center Sun; with a "Ring of Fire" around the clear center. So, you get a "Circle of Fire in the Sky".
On the Right is a Map showing all the Total Solar Eclipse Paths from 2001 thru 2025
The Map shows where the Sun's Shadow will be the strongest...and where its effects may also be strongest.
Often there occur major changes in countries or places where the Eclipse Shadow is the most concentrated
The Black Star shows the point of Greatest Eclipse
Click to Enlarge Total Solar Eclipse Map
Eclipses 2011: Click Image To Enlarge
Current or Upcoming Solar Eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse: 25 Nov 2011
Partial Solar Eclipse Animation: 25 Nov 2011
2012 Eclipse Over America
A "Head's up" FOR 2012
The Solar Eclipse of May 20th, 2012 is the Next Solar Eclipse to Pass Over the United States.
That Eclipse Shadow will pass through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Corner of Colorado, New Mexico & Texas "Just FYI"
[Full Path goes thru: China, Hong Kong, Japan, & the USA]
Also: The Solar Eclipse of November 13, 2012 ? [Path goes thru: Australia]
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2017 Total Solar Eclipse Over The United States and the New Madrid Fault
