Watch The ‘Ring Of Fire’ Solar Eclipse Online

If you are one of the lucky ones, living in large parts of the United States in the Pacific Northwest of North Texas, you will find a rare treat tonight.

This is called “annular eclipse of the sun”, which occurs when the moon glides by the sun, blocking the center, leaving a glowing ring called “Ring”.

We could get into the “shadow”, “dark” and “antumbra”, but you’ll have to Google for yourself. The main difference between the annular eclipse of the sun and the solar eclipse due to the fact how measure the moon is from Earth.

The closer to the ground, it is, the more the moon – block more sun. When the moon is farthest from Earth is less than leaving this “ring of fire” when it seems to pass before the sun. Now the moon is farthest from Earth, it is particularly large ring of fire.

In fact, it’s not just Americans that the band along to be able to see this very rare solar lunar events. (The last was in 1994.)

It begins in the southern part of China, then move along the southern coast of Japan, to cross the Pacific Ocean south of the Aleutian Islands to hit the U.S. state of Oregon, California border. (Speaking of the “Ring of Fire”, the Aleutian Islands are part of another “Ring of Fire” -. Volcanic rim around the Pacific Ocean from South America to New Zealand, it has nothing to do with Johnny Cash, though.)

This image of the Office of the United Kingdom Hydrographic is particularly good.

The main advice to monitor the annular eclipse in the evening and his “ring of fire” is to be cautious.

Ron Hipschman, who describes himself on Twitter as “Loose Cannon at the Exploratorium” in San Francisco, offers the following warning:

“When I was a kid, did you ever take a magnifying glass in the sun and burn the leaves? If so, you probably remember that when the attention of the sunlight is refracted through a lens and focused on a small area, such as energy, it was really nice. You know what? Do you have a goal just to the eye. If you look at the sun, eye lenses concentrate the sunlight and focus it on a very small spot on the back of the retina. This can cause permanent eye damage or blindness. Furthermore, there is no pain sensors so you will not even know what it is! Am I afraid to shake you? Good! ”

On this site, Mr. Hipschman provides guidelines for safe observation of any solar eclipse.

How could you do in your year of high school science, you can create an opening in the projector, using a long box, a piece of foil, a pin, and a sheet of white paper. What a great opportunity to do something with the kids!

This site shows you how to build a projector using a black plastic cup, waxed paper, scissors, eraser, and bugs. Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City has a good sense of creating holes by simple projection.

“Get even more basic, you can use your own hands,” said Hipschman. “Just keep the fingers of both hands overlap at right angles. Holes between the fingers to make a puncture.”

Clark Planetarium director Seth Jarvis said, forget the old proposal to soot from a candle flame on a piece of glass, use a black and white film, a doubling in the sunglasses. Neither provides adequate protection, and he does not recommend trying to use a welding goggles to watch the sun if they are not designed for arc welding (at least class 14).

So enjoy the light show tonight, but do it carefully.