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What is Annular Solar Eclipse?

by Joesamuel S - December 28, 2019

I am privileges to witness the greatest spacial event of 2019 with my own eyes. You are right. We had a wonderful annular solar eclipse today morning in south part of India. I wasn’t prepared enough to catch the full event in the camera. But I got a chance to live stream it in our Facebook. If you didn’t get a chance to see it. I have given that video link here. Please have a look. It was amazing.

Special about this event?
This kind of partial solar eclipse happened south India in the year of 2010 June. Before that it was in 1901. Close to India in Indian Ocean happened once in 1956. So if we are lucky enough we will have one in 2050. So if you live in India, if you live long enough you may get next eclipse in 2050. So it is very rare and beautiful event. 

What is Solar Eclipse?
If sun, moon and earth aligns in a straight line, then it is called eclipse? Wrong,
Any object comes in between sun and the plant is called eclipse. It not only in earth, but in other planets also eclipses are possible, Again, the shadow in earth is not only casted by moon, Venus and mercury also can cast its shadow on earth, then it is called Venus eclipse and mercury eclipse respectively. Only room is a light should be blocked by a celestial body and casts shadow on some other object in the space. In that case, eclipse is happening in the solar system everyday. But we cannot see everyday. So if you get a chance to see it. Don’t miss it next time.

Types of Solar Eclipses:
So there are 3 type of eclipses are possible, Full (Total) Solar Eclipse, where moon would completely cover the sun. Second, Partial Solar Eclipse, which will not entirely cover the sun but portion of sun. Third, Annular Solar Eclipse, in which though moon tried to cover the sun completely, it cannot cover the entire surface of the sun and leave out the outer ring exposed. Overall, this celestial events are so amazing, whatever the things we hear from newspapers and from scientists press meeting can be witnessed with our own eyes. So it is the best experience we can experience. 
How is it possible? Sun or Moon are not changing its size, but how is it possible that sometime, the moon can cover the entire sun, other time it is not.

What is Annular Solar Eclipse?
As Moon circle around the earth, earth is not circle around the sun in a circular path, instead it takes elliptical path. In one side of the sun earth approaches sun closely, in other side  far away. This changes the speed of earths rotation speed as well. 
Take this as an example, you have two balls in your hand. <Dirty Minds Stay Away 😉> one ball is bigger than the other, consider the bigger ball as sun and small one as moon. When the sun is far away from earth and moon, then the small ball can be completely covered by the small ball or moon. But when the earth is close to the sun (Especially in the months of December end to January beginning), then the moon will not be able to cover the sun completely, it will leave the outer portion of the sun. This would look like a ring. People call it as a "Ring of Fire".
Other way around if the eclipse happened, in the other side of the rotation path, then moon can cover the sun completely so it will end up in full solar eclipse.
Reference Links:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/indian-ocean.html?starty=1950&type=annular-solar https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/annular-solar-eclipse.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_December_26,_2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#Types

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Type of Solar Eclipses
Annular Solar Eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse
Total Solar Eclipse
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