Total eclipse of the sun to darken slice of Indonesia

Mar 09, 2016, 16:45

A four-member team from NASA is heading to Maba, a small town in the Maluku Islands where the total eclipse will occur for around three minutes, one of the longest times it can be seen.

The lone total solar eclipse for 2016 will occur on Wednesday, March 9, and will be seen across large parts of Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon's shadow falls on Earth.

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The celestial spectacle, which NASA says happens about once a year on Earth, will begin on Wednesday in parts of Southeast Asia and will cross the worldwide date line to end Tuesday local time, the New York Times reports. The next total solar eclipse will happen on August 21st, 2017 and you can catch it from certain places across the US!

A rare total solar eclipse will be visible in a broad arc across the country about an hour later. A total solar eclipse will shadow Indonesia and North Pacific Ocean, and a 30-meter asteroid will fly close to the Earth's surface. Thousands of eclipse-chasers have come from overseas and the government, which has been the promoting the event for more than a year, expects a substantial tourism boost.

During a total eclipse, the moon blocks the entire disk of the sun, darkening the sky and letting observers glimpse the sun's faint outer atmosphere, the corona. Overseas tour agencies have chartered ships for groups who want to view the eclipse at sea and many land tours, which are the best for photography, have also been organized.

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"We accommodated tourists as far as our capacity allowed", said Muhaimin Ramza, manager of the Aston Hotel, one of several hotels that are booked out in the city of Palembang on Indonesia's western island of Sumatra.

NASA created this Google map showing the path of totality for Tuesday's total eclipse of the sun. "How unbelievable this sunny morning suddenly changed to dark", said Junaz Amir, a Sigi resident who witnessed the eclipse with his family using special glasses that protect eyes.

Chou, a Canadian who helped develop the worldwide standards for eclipse filters, said there were still impressive effects of light and darkness and birds appeared confused and disorientated by dark falling again after dawn. The moments in which the sun is entirely obscured will last between 90 seconds and 4 minutes.

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