Total Solar Eclipse - Sun Eating Phenomenon

Since the eclipse across Indonesia sky arched morning, they put thousands of rectangular solar eclipse glasses, gazing rise, hoping to glimpse a rare natural phenomenon. The crowd began to arrive in downtown Jakarta Observatory and early receive a free pair of glasses and the best place to secure eclipse watchers are formed early in the morning 03 points.

 Some people bring a picnic with them, while others climbed the observatory perched on the roof or on top of a fire truck idle avoid crowds and to ensure the best viewing.

Since the beginning of the Moon on the Earth and the sun light on the pass between an unusual evening shades, and the first crescent profiling.

Today (March 8) the moon will pass in front of the sun, causing the first and only total solar eclipse in 2016 in skywatchers around the world, and how this is expected to see the eclipse.

The eclipse will be visible across Indonesia, from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and Halmahera. Partial eclipse will be over eastern and southern regions, we can see the north and west of Australia and Hawaii.

At the time the position is known as the greatest point on earth, the sun will be completely covered by the moon just four minutes, according to Jeff Starry Night Education Gaherty. However, this place lies in the Pacific Ocean

Wednesday morning (Tuesday night or if, like me, you are on the East Coast), the moon passes between the sun and Earth, some 90 miles wide projecting total solar eclipse over the Pacific Ocean.

How about solar eclipse in USA?

Hawaii will be able to see the partial eclipse around 4:33 to 18:33 local time, around 17:37 peaked. Alaska may be able to see the partial eclipse through sunset around 5:40 PM, but Alaska scheduling news stories may be too cloudy to see the words. A few lucky people aboard Alaska Airlines flights to Hawaii tonight will get to watch the show, but also for the airline to adjust its flight path, fly directly into the full shadow.

If you are lucky ones, one glance, but do not stare. This is a very, very bad idea, staring at the sun, even when the moon covering most. Retinal damage caused by light from some or all of the intensity of radiation will eclipse. "Even if the solar surface (photosphere) of 99% is covered in some stage during the eclipse, the remaining crescent Sun is still intense enough to cause retinal burns, even if light levels comparable to dusk

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