{"id":38792,"date":"2023-10-14T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38792"},"modified":"2023-10-14T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:40:25","slug":"rare-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/rare-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A spectacular solar eclipse<\/a> will be visible across the entire continental U.S. this weekend, offering people from coast to coast the chance to see the moon take a \u201cbite\u201d out of the sun and affording lucky sky-watchers in nine states the opportunity to witness a rare \u201cring of fire\u201d in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The astronomical event will take place Saturday. Weather permitting, sky-watchers in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas, as well as slivers of California, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona, will be able to see the moon almost completely cover the sun, creating the effect of a fiery, orange-hued ring around the moon\u2019s shadow. In all other states in the continental U.S., viewers will be treated to a partial solar eclipse, with the moon obscuring only part of the sun in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar eclipses are the results of cosmic confluences, occurring when the moon passes in front of the sun and temporarily blocks its light. Saturday\u2019s event is what\u2019s known as an annular solar eclipse \u2014 \u201cannular\u201d means \u201cring-shaped\u201d in Latin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People should never gaze directly at the sun during a solar eclipse, even when it is partly or mostly covered by the moon. Special eclipse glasses or pinhole projector<\/a>s<\/a> are required to safely view solar eclipses and prevent eye damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, sky-watchers along a roughly 125-mile-wide path that cuts from Oregon south to Texas and through Central and South America will be able to\u00a0see the full \u201cring of fire\u201d effect<\/a>. Most people in North America outside the \u201cpath of annularity\u201d will see a partial eclipse if skies are clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky-watchers in Oregon will be able to see the start of a partial eclipse at 8:06 a.m. PT. The period of annularity, when the \u201cring of fire\u201d effect is visible, will last around 5 minutes. During that time, the point of maximum coverage for people in Eugene, Oregon, will occur at 9:18 a.m. PT. Maximum coverage will be at 9:20 a.m. PT in Alturas, California; at 9:23 a.m. PT in Battle Mountain, Nevada; at 10:28 a.m. MT in Richfield, Utah; at 10:35 a.m. MT in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and 11:54 a.m. CT in San Antonio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday\u2019s eclipse is a much-anticipated astronomical event because it\u2019s rare for the path of a solar eclipse to cut so cleanly across the continental U.S., said Diana Hannikainen, an editor at Sky & Telescope, a monthly magazine about science and amateur astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing sight to see this black, lunar disc silhouetted against the brighter solar disk,\u201d she said, adding that if it\u2019s feasible to travel to a place along the path of annularity, it\u2019s \u201cworth taking a peek, because just seeing this event reminds us that we live in a solar system that\u2019s constantly in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A spectacular solar eclipse will be visible across the entire continental U.S. this weekend, offering people from coast to coast the chance to see the moon take a \u201cbite\u201d out of the sun and affording lucky sky-watchers in nine states the opportunity to witness a rare \u201cring of fire\u201d in the sky. The astronomical event will take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":38793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ring.jpg?fit=892%2C508&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38794,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38792\/revisions\/38794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}