EL PRÓXIMO 22-9-06, ECLIPSE SOLAR ANULAR

El eclipse se producirá desgraciadamente sobre el océano deshabitado, y por tanto,
este anillo de fuego será solamente visible desde tierra en parte de
la Guayana, Surinam y la Guinea francesa.


En otras partes de América del Sur y de África, en el amanecer de este viernes día 22,
se verá sólo como un cuarto creciente del disco solar.


La raya roja en el mapa de abajo, indica la trayectoria
del eclipse, cuando el sol se verá como un anillo de fuego
durante unos 7 minutos.



SOLAR ECLIPSE:

When the day begins in South America on Friday, Sept. 22nd, something won't be quite right: the rising sun will be shaped like a crescent. It's the beginning of an annular solar eclipse:

Annular eclipses occur when the Moon passes straight in front of the sun but fails to cover the entire solar disk. A sliver of sun pokes out in all directions producing a vivid ring of fire. This is what's going to happen on Friday.

Unfortunately, almost all of the eclipse takes place over uninhabited ocean. The red line in the map above, traces the "path of annularity" where the sun will become a ring for about 7 minutes.

Only in a tiny swath of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana will the ring of fire be visible from land.

Elsewhere, the Moon will cross the sun off-center, producing not a ring but a crescent. At daybreak, people in South America will see a crescent sunrise; later in the day crescent sunbeams will dapple the ground in Africa.