Indian Ocean to see Solar Eclipse

Monday, January 26 will bring about an interesting, and sight to people in the Indian Ocean. There will be an annular solar eclipse. An annular solar eclipse is when the moon is positioned between the sun and the earth. However, in an annular solar eclipse the moon does not completely cover the sun, as it does in a total solar eclipse. Rather, you will see a "ring of fire" around the moon. The is depicted in the image to the left.

Fred Espanek, a veteran of eclipse watcher from NASA says that," the total eclipse track will run from west to east on Monday from 0606 GMT to 0952 GMT." Those individuals in Africa, Madagascar, Australia, Southeast India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia, are lucky enough to witness the rare annular eclipse. The last annular eclipse occurred on February 7, 2007. The next annular eclipse will take place on January 15, 2010. One more eclipse for the year will be on July 22. This will be a total solar eclipse.

source: Yahoo! News
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