Moon at Noon The DoSeum is over the moon that this year's Annular Eclipse will pass right over San Antonio, creating an out-of-this world ring of fire in the sky! Join them Saturday, October 14, for an eclipse-viewing party! Free admission will be granted to the first 500 guests, who will also receive special viewing glasses.
The only time it s safe to gaze at the sun without any eye protection is during the "totality" of a total solar eclipse, which North America would experience on April 8, 2024.
The crowd gathered at North Domingo Baca park clapped and cheered as the annular solar eclipse reached its totality Saturday morning. The "ring of fire" left by the sun still looked like daylight — just daylight viewed through tinted sunglasses.
Jim Urquhart/ReutersPeople across the Western Hemisphere were treated to an annular solar eclipse on Saturday, visible to millions across North, Central, and South America—an event that won’t occur again until 2039. NASA, whose livestream of the event had garnered nearly 7 million views by Saturday afternoon, describes an annular eclipse as what happens when the moon passes directly in front of the sun but does not completely obscure it. The result resembles a “ring of fire” suspended in the sky