Antarctica partial eclipse with the moon covering 80% of the sun at South Pole
Only viewers close enough to Antarctica - in Cape Town, South Africa, near sunrise, and in the Australian island of Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand near sunset - will be able to see the Sun eclipsed. Read more
Astro enthusiasts in the country will miss an opportunity to watch the largest partial solar eclipse of the year as it will be visible only from the deep Southern Hemisphere. A partial solar eclipse will take place tomorrow which will only be seen from southern South Africa, Antarctica, Tasmania and most of New Zealand, except for the far north of the North Island. Read more
An astronomy professor is coming all the way from the United States to watch a partial solar eclipse in Invercargill on Friday evening. Amateur astronomer Bob Evans said Professor Jay Pasachoff is an expert on the sun and he is coming to Invercargill because it will be the best place in the world to see the eclipse. Read more
A partial solar eclipse will occur on November 25, 2011. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. This eclipse will be visible across Antarctica in its summer 24 hour day sunlight, and New Zealand near sunset with less than 20% of the sun obscured. Parts of the western Antarctic Peninsula will experience nearly 90% obscuration of the sun. This will be the last of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, June 1, 2011, and July 1, 2011.
Solar Eclipse This Friday Could Wow Small Audience
This Friday (Nov. 25), a rather large partial eclipse of the sun will be on view - but only for a relatively small audience. This will be the fourth time that a new moon will orbit between the sun and Earth to cause a solar eclipse in 2011, just one eclipse shy of the maximum for the number of solar eclipses in a given year. Read more