During an annular eclipse, the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky.
An annular solar eclipse on May 20, 2012.They’ll instead experience a partial solar eclipse.
Viewers in parts of the eastern United States and northern Alaska will see a partial solar eclipse on June 10, along with much of Canada and parts of the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.
In the United States, the partial eclipse will be visible along parts of the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, and in Northern Alaska.A visualization of the Moon’s shadow during the June 10, 2021 annular solar eclipse showing the antumbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and path of annularity (red).
This map of the eclipse path shows where the June 10, 2021, annular and partial solar eclipse will occur.When watching a partial solar eclipse or annular solar eclipse, you must wear solar viewing or eclipse glasses throughout the entire eclipse if you want to face the Sun.
Solar viewing or eclipses glasses are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses are not safe for viewing the Sun.
An annular eclipse occurs when the moon, slightly more distant from Earth than on average, moves directly between Earth and the sun, thus appearing slightly smaller to observers’ eyes; the effect is a bright ring, or annulus of sunlight, around the silhouette of the moon
If you don’t have solar viewing or eclipse glasses, you can use an alternate indirect method, such as a pinhole projectorJune 5, 2021
June 5, 2021