Solar eclipse, daylight savings: Put your hands together and clap
Prepare to be
amazed. Not only is there a hybrid solar eclipse happening but folks also get
an extra hour of sleep due to the switch from daylight saving time to standard
time, so many can rest up and see it.
Sunday's rare
hybrid eclipse is a combination of two types: annular and total. NASA denotes the
final eclipse of 2013 will be visible from within a thin corridor, which travels across the
North Atlantic and Africa.
Who can view it? People on the East
Coast will see a brief partial solar eclipse finishing up around 30 minutes after
sunrise, as long as clouds don't block it. The "ring of fire" aspect
of the eclipse starts at sunrise east of Jacksonville, Fla.
The greatest part
of the eclipse will happen in the Atlantic at 12:47:36 UT, approximately 330
kilometers southwest of Liberia, according to NASA's website. This is when the
axis of the Moon's shadow passes closest to the Earth's center.
Folks can also
watch live coverage of the eclipse on the space-tracking website
Slooh. The Internet-based community observatory will stream the eclipse
seen from Kenya as it enters the total phase.
And don't forget to
turn those clocks back one hour. It means an extra 60 minutes of sleep for most
people in the U.S. The change officially happens at 2 a.m. on Sunday. So, folks
can get up at sunrise Sunday to watch the eclipse which will occur at 6:30 a.m.
ET.
If you miss it, the
next chance to see a total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be on Aug. 21, 2017.
For the shutterbug
set, Nikon lays out some tips on how to photograph an eclipse.
Among the pointers:
1.) Use a solar filter when
photographing the partial of a solar eclipse or the maximum phase of an annular
eclipse
2.) The longer the focal length of
the lens, the larger the photos of the sun
3.) Place your camera on a steady
tripod and manually focus the camera
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