The last total solar eclipse occurred on March 20, 2015, and was only visible from the Faroe Islands and Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
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This region can only be observed during total solar eclipses when the Sun’s bright face is completely blocked by the Moon.
An Air Asia passenger plane flies as a partial solar eclipse occurs Wednesday, March 9, 2016 as seen from Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines. And Bruce for some people on one of the country’s small islands it was total darkness.
From the remote eastern Indonesian Ternate island this morning, onlookers were able to watch a a rare astronomical phenomenon – a total solar eclipse.
The flight departure was initially 25 minutes too early to catch the eclipse’s best views, but the airline chose to move the flight time to accommodate viewers of the phenomenon.
Akash Anandh took this photo of the March 2016 solar eclipse in Singapore with a Canon EOS 450D and Canon 75-300 telephoto lens.
The next total solar eclipse is on August 21, 2017 and will be visible from a narrow corridor across the United States. You have to be in the right place at the right time for the sun, moon, and earth to be lined up just right. Western Australia saw a partial eclipse from 8am whereas Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart unfortunately missed the eclipse.
However, for those who viewed the attractive celestial were indeed lucky!
Because the eclipse path crosses the International Date Line, in the local time zones it will begin on Wednesday 9 March and end on Tuesday 8 March.
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“The sun totally disappeared”. In Palembang, a Sumatran city of more than 1.4 million, thousands of residents from mothers carrying infants to old men gathered at its landmark Ampera bridge from well before dawn. The eclipse, which from the vantage point of Jakarta produced an impressive crescent, was also streamed on monitors around the planetarium. There is also some great science going on, as a team of NASA scientists are making the trip to get a close look at the Sun’s atmosphere.
