How To Watch The Solar Eclipse In The UAE Now

The movement of the moon and the sun suggests that most of Africa will be able to witness the eclipse, and here in South Africa we’ll be able to see a partial eclipse.

Ring of fire solar eclipses are also called annular eclipses.

The next annular solar eclipse will be visible in South America on 26 February 2017.

Prof. Babatunde Rabiu, director, Centre for Atmospheric Research, Anyigba, Kogi, has said many cities will experience different degrees of obscurity of the sun during annular eclipse today. The moon will glide between the sun and the earth blocking most of the light and darkening the sky above the continent.

A glorious solar eclipse made its way across the African sky early this morning (Sept. 1).

DAILY POST also gathered that some Kano residents reportedly experienced the annular eclipse.

Even for observers gazing up at a partial eclipse under cloudy skies, the view was spectacular.

In a total eclipse the Moon’s path carries it directly in front of the Sun, where it blocks out all of the light and leaves nothing but the faint white ring of the Sun’s corona.

Myth about solar eclipse for ancient Rwandans is that the solar eclipse is the time when the moon and the sun are in love and discretely hide themselves in darkness. As a result, the moon that appears small in size covers the larger sun on the same plane, leaving the border of the sun uncovered. “After that we are not going to see solar eclipse here until the next ten years”.

The greatest eclipse will occur in the Southern Hemisphere portion of Africa.

An unfolding partial eclipse of the sun can now be viewed in Rwanda with a better view expected in the coming hours.

“It is advised not to look directly onto the sun because it will be very bright and can cause damage to your retina therefore you should use coloured glass or foil paper to look at the sun”, he said. “If it were the total eclipse, we would have encouraged everybody to travel to try this”, Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer told us.