The time of
central eclipse is 21:22 and the duration is 4.93 hours.
A
central eclipse would dim the system by 0.7 or 0.8 magnitude for several hours, quite enough to detect with the naked eye.
Visible in the western part of the United States, it will be the first
central eclipse of the 21st century in the continental USA, and also the first annular eclipse in the US since the solar eclipse of May 10, 1994.
On the day of the eclipse, Mt Fuji will be ideally located within the "
central eclipse path" that allows for optimum viewing, and the view is especially spectacular in the clear air of the mountain peak.
When the moon is close enough to earth during a
central eclipse, the eclipse is total--all the sun's fiery disk is hidden and magnificent sights like the sun's pearly outer atmosphere appear in a sky dark enough for some stars to come out.
The
central eclipse begins at 20:36 Universal Time on November 13th, which is the morning of the 14th in Australia, when the Moon's umbral shadow first touches down about 190 kilometers (120 miles) east of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, along the northeastern border of Kakadu National Park.
detected the total
central eclipse which is the first of its kind in this
While the
central eclipse is likely to be dark, there is a better chance that at least part of the Moon will display dramatic color - perhaps an eerie, ruby red - during some stages at the end of the night.
But 73 seconds before
central eclipse, Robinson, while looking through his camera's viewfinder, spied the corona at the trailing edge of the Moon's limb.
Conference organizers Poitevin and Edmonds, who billed the meeting as "a crossroad on solar physics and eclipses of the Sun," plan to hold a similar conference in 2004, when no
central eclipse occurs.
Before
central eclipse, the uninformed would have felt no less enlightened by the annular eclipse hidden in plain sight.