Sunday, May 20, 2012

Eclipse Today

From the LVRJ:  A wide swath of Nevada will enjoy a rare front row seat Sunday afternoon as the moon passes in front of the sun, creating a ring of fire in the sky.
The eclipse will be visible - though dangerous to look at with the naked eye - in the Las Vegas Valley starting at just after 5:21 p.m., but the prime viewing will take place farther north.
The center line of the moon's shadow is expected to pass across the state in a diagonal, southwesterly line from Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, to Caliente in Lincoln County.
For 100 miles on either side of that line, the eclipse will be annular, a phenomenon that occurs when the moon lines up perfectly with the sun but is too far from Earth to completely cover our closest star as it does during a total eclipse.
Sunday's celestial event will peak at about 6:35 p.m. and end about an hour later, just before sundown.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/be-safe-observing-a-celestial-ring-of-fire-152003215.html
So, if you watch the eclipse, be careful, don't burn your eyes.  And try and see it because: 
This will be the first solar eclipse visible in Las Vegas since May 1994. There won't be another annular eclipse over the United States until 2023.

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