Astro Bob

The sun appears in annular eclipse on Oct. 3, 2005. The black silhouette is the new moon. Abel Pardo Lopez On Thursday morning, June 10 , the new moon will glide in front of the sun, and observers across the eastern U.S. and Canada, along with much of Europa and Asia, will witness a solar eclipse. This will be an annular or ring eclipse because the moon is farther from Earth than usual and appears too small to completely cover the sun. Instead, sunlight will spill around its edges to form a ring. The moon's distance varies because it orbits the Earth in an ellipse, not a circle. Lucky skywatchers in the path of annularity will see a brilliant ring or annulus of sunlight encircling the moon at maximum eclipse. That path begins at sunrise on the far north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario and sweeps across Hudson Bay, northwestern Greenland, the North Pole and ends at sunset in Siberia.  Here are details of the June 10th eclipse for a sample of cities. Obscuration is the area of the