Annular Solar Eclipse 15 Jan 2010

Annular Solar Eclipse on 15 January 2010
Can be seen best in Tropical regions on the Equator, from Nigeria in Africa, crossing Indian Ocean, passing by the southern tip of India all the way to Korea in the far East.
Its the first Solar Eclipse of the year 2010
Annular Solar Eclipses usually happens in winter time, as the Sun is at Perihelion i.e at its nearest to Earth, so apparent diameter of the Sun is larger than that of the Moon, for that the Moon can not cover the Sun entirely leaving a ring of light around it..
Total Solar Eclipses howerver usually happens in sumer times as the sun at Aphelion i.e at its furthest from Earth and its apparent diameter is smaller than the Moon and can be covered entirely...
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is fully or partially covered. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. At least two and up to five solar eclipses can occur each year on Earth, with between zero and two of them being total eclipses.Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any location because during each eclipse totality exists only along a narrow corridor in the relatively tiny area of the Moon's umbra.
A total solar eclipse is a spectacular natural phenomenon and many people travel to remote locations to observe one. The solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 in Europe helped to increase public awareness of the phenomenon, as illustrated by the number of journeys made specifically to witness the total solar eclipse of October 3, 2005 and the total solar eclipse of March 29, 2006. The recent solar eclipse of January 26, 2009, was an annular eclipse, while the solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 was a total solar eclipse.
This eclipse here is an annular Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 and the next total event is the solar eclipse of July 11, 2010.
In ancient times, and in some cultures today, solar eclipses have been attributed to supernatural causes. Total solar eclipses can be frightening for people who are unaware of their astronomical explanation, as the Sun seems to disappear in the middle of the day and the sky darkens in a matter of minutes.

There are four types of solar eclipses:-
1- A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon. The intensely bright disk of the Sun is replaced by the dark silhouette of the Moon, and the much fainter corona is visible. During any one eclipse, totality is visible only from at most a narrow track on the surface of the Earth.
2- An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon.
3- A hybrid eclipse (also called annular/total eclipse) transitions between a total and annular eclipse. At some points on the surface of the Earth it is visible as a total eclipse, whereas at others it is annular. Hybrid eclipses are comparatively rare.
4- A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are not exactly in line and the Moon only partially obscures the Sun. This phenomenon can usually be seen from a large part of the Earth outside of the track of an annular or total eclipse. However, some eclipses can only be seen as a partial eclipse, because the umbra never intersects the Earth's surface, passing above the Earth's polar regions.
The Sun's distance from the Earth is about 390 times the Moon's distance, and the Sun's diameter is about 400 times the Moon's diameter. Because these ratios are approximately the same, the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth appear to be approximately the same size: about 0.5 degree of arc in angular measure.

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[MyCarla27]

Mooie video from the moon and music! Thank you!

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

@MyCarla27 u van harte welkom mijn vriend...

[BeneOpastos]

11 min 8 sec approximately 11:11

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

yes thats right...

[shyanokashyana]

Beautiful done!!!

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

Thanks...

[iLOVENATURE2011]

nice one! =)

[asshol3434]

if the moon whas biger then a sun then i cal it total clipse all over th woorld has the sam darknes lol i wand see it for my own must be scary i tink

[MyCarla27]

@KurdstanPlanetarium Bericht is voor jou, ik dacht dat het om zons verduistering ging.

[MyCarla27]

@KurdstanPlanetarium Thank You veru much my friend...