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Solar Eclipse's Shadow on Earth

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NASA's Terra satellite didn't observe the eclipse directly, but it did see the moon's shadow darkening the region northeast of Australia including the Solomon Islands. This image was captured by Terra's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on May 9, 2013, at 23:30 UTC.
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Crowds watch 'gorgeous' solar eclipse in Australia

Scientists and astronomers gathered in Tennant Creek, Australia to watch an annular Solar eclipse on Friday.
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EventTime
Start of Solar Eclipse21:25:11 UT
Start of Umbra eclipse22:30:36 UT
Start of central annular eclipse22:32:41 UT
Start of Full umbra cone 22:34:45 UT
Central00:19:40.8 UT
Greatest Solar Eclipse00:25:13.0 UT
Topocentric New Moon in the constellation Aries00:32.9 UT
Umbra starts to leave02:15:44 UT
End of the central eclipse02:17:50 UT
End of Umbra eclipse02:19:56 UT
End of Solar Eclipse03:25:22 UT


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Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses

The Sun can be viewed safely with the naked eye only during the few brief seconds or minutes of a total solar eclipse. Partial eclipses, annular eclipses, and the partial phases of total eclipses are never safe to watch without taking special precautions.

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Live webcast: Starts at 21:00 UT, 9th May, 2013.



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Eclipse to Sweep Across Australia, Pacific Islands

An annular eclipse of the Sun, when a ring of everyday Sun remains around the Moon's silhouette, will sweep across the Australian outback and into the Pacific Ocean on the morning of May 10, local time. Though about 95% of the solar disk will be covered, the remaining 5% of Sun will be so bright that the darkening of the sky would hardly be noticeable except to those watching through specially filtered glasses. Unlike the case for the recent total eclipse, the special filters must be used throughout the entire event.
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Google earth file: Solar eclipse, May 10, 2013.kmz (27kb, kmz)



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An annular solar eclipse will take place on May 10, 2013, with a magnitude of 0.9544.
Annularity will be visible from northern Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean, with the maximum of 6 minutes 3 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.
 
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