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SOUTHEAST Onlookers at the Home Depot shopping center joined skywatchers around the Northeast to enjoy the partial solar eclipse that was created as the sun rose early Thursday.
People gathered at the plaza just north of Brewster in Putnam County before 6:30 a.m. to see the partial solar eclipse, which was visible throughout much of the Northeast. The full eclipse was visible in parts of Canada.
No part of the U.S. will see the full annular eclipse.
The most ideally situated large metropolitan areas to view the partial eclipse at sunrise are Toronto, Philadelphia and New York.
An annular eclipse is when the moon covers the sun s center, leaving the sun s visible outer edge to form a “ring of fire.
Skywatchers in North America will be in for a treat Thursday morning as an annular ring of fire solar eclipse will be visible in portions of Canada while a partial solar eclipse will be seen as the sun rises across much of the northeastern U.S.
Ring of fire solar eclipse coming Thursday; northeastern US will see a partial eclipse. What you need to know. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Skywatchers in North America will be in for a treat Thursday morning as an annular ring of fire solar eclipse will be visible in portions of Canada while a partial solar eclipse will be seen as the sun rises across much of the northeastern U.S.
The path of the annular eclipse starts at sunrise in Ontario, Canada, (on the north side of Lake Superior), then circles across the northern reaches of the globe, EarthSky s Bruce McClure said. Midway along the path, the greatest eclipse occurs at local noon in northern Greenland and then swings by the Earth’s North Pole, and finally ends at sunset over northeastern Siberia, he said.