Saudi Arabia Al-Kharkhir: The best Saudi places to monitor the rare annular eclipse on June 21

Written By سنان خلف on 2020/06/18

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather Arabs - Sinan behind - the eclipse of the sun, there was an astronomical important eagerly awaited general population of Saudi Arabia, residents Kherjer province cut it south of the Kingdom in particular, which are considered to Kherjer province and one of the best regions of the world to monitor and watch the annular eclipse of the sun on Sunday 21 the morning of June this , Being located within the path of the moon’s shadow center during its transit from in front of the sun’s disk.

 

When will the annular eclipse of the sun start in the rattle?

Astronomical calculations indicate that the eclipse will begin on Sunday, at 7:03 am, and the sun will begin to gradually disappear behind the moon, and the sun will be seen in a form that is closer to the shape of the crescent, given the passage of the greater part of the moon in front of the sun disk, masking The bulk of it.

 

When will the height of the annular eclipse of the rattle be?

 

And at exactly 8:20 am, the annular eclipse phase begins , where the moon begins with the total transit phase in front of the sun, and because the moon is at its farthest point in its orbit from the Earth, it will be smaller than usual, so it blocks 97.9% of it and leaves the edges of the sun visible Which will cause us to see a ring of light surrounding the shadow of the moon. Then the moon begins to move quickly in front of the sun, to appear as a crescent moon again.

 

At 9:53, the moon turns away completely in front of the Sun’s disk, and the eclipse ends.

 

 

 

 

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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