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Partial Solar Eclipse to Darken South Africa, Antarctica and Locations in Indian and Atlantic Oceans (+Video)
Partial Solar Eclipse to Darken South Africa, Antarctica and Locations in Indian and Atlantic Oceans on Sunday.
Partial solar eclipses happen when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth but they don’t align in a perfectly straight line.
In a partial solar eclipse, the Sun looks like the Moon has taken a bite out of it. This is because the Moon casts the lighter, outer part of it’s shadow, the penumbra, on Earth.
Because of this, the Moon only partially covers the Sun’s disc.
The best view of this partial solar eclipse — the third of four solar or lunar eclipses this year — from an urban area will be from Cape Town, South Africa, where the moon will cover a maximum of 30 percent of the sun. The eclipse will begin in Cape Town just as the sun and moon are rising at 6:49 a.m. local time. Early risers will see a tiny bite out of the sun. At 7:43 a.m., the eclipse will reach its maximum, and by 8:50 a.m., it will be over.
This eclipse will be visible throughout South Africa, and also in southern parts of Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Partial Solar Eclipse to Darken Southern Africa’s Skies Sunday
Space.com http://tinyurl.com/pnjrsov
Partial Solar Eclipse – September 13, 2015
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2015-september-13
If you are lucky enough to see a solar eclipse, make sure you protect your eyes and never look directly at the Sun at any point without proper protection. Clear Skies …
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Cape Town and the entire Western Cape is going to be totally overcast Sunday morning — what a pity
The rest of South Africa will be mostly sunny though.