Millions of people across North, South and parts of Central America celebrated a rare evening of fire on Saturday.Solar Eclipse will be appreciated. Equipped with special protective glasses, they gathered in several places, for example in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, to watch the scenery together.

During a fiery solar Eclipse, also known as an Annular Solar Eclipse, the Moon moves in front of the Sun, but the outer rim of our home star is visible. According to the US space agency NASA, the solar eclipse was visible mostly in parts of the US states of Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. and Colombia and Brazil.

A very long phase over Panama

Visibility of the annual solar eclipse moves across the continental United States in a narrow swath from northwest to southeast. The maximum duration of the annual phase was five minutes and 17 seconds, reaching Panama. For example, large parts of the US saw partial phases of darkness, although rain clouds prevented viewing of the sky in parts of the US East Coast. This phenomenon was not observed throughout Europe.

This is how an annular solar eclipse occurs

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves centrally in front of the Sun, but is at a relatively large distance from Earth at that time. This means that the Earth’s satellite does not completely cover the disk of the Sun. Another total solar eclipse has been announced for parts of North America in April 2024.

(Source: APA)