Solar Eclipse 2020: Know More About The 'Ring Of Fire'

Solar Eclipse 2020: Well, tomorrow is not a regular Sunday to get relaxed and wake up in the noon!!! This weekend is going to be big as the 'Ring Of Fire' commonly called as 'Solar Eclipse' is going to occur.

As it is not a complete eclipse, this space wonder will only be seen in India and a few other parts of the world. People in parts of China, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Pakistan are lucky to witness such amazing wonder of the space.

One definitely need to go with specially made eclipse glasses to witness this Solar Eclipse, ignoring the same will damage the eyes to the core as the dangerous eclipse rays can take a toll on one's eyes.

The Ring of Fire will start at 10:18 AM and will end exactly at 01:49 PM. As it is not a complete eclipse, the edges of the moon will be visible… The moon will directly pass between the Sun and the Earth during the above mentioned time.

According to NASA, this solar annual eclipse will take place under certain conditions and will go on for 3 hours 31 minutes which becomes a longer eclipse of this year. The moon will first be in its lunar phase and stands in an elliptical order being far away from the Earth.

According to 'The American Astronomical Society (AAS)': "Ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the Sun; they transmit thousands of times too much sunlight. Do not look at the Sun through a camera, telescope, binoculars, or any other optical device while using your eclipse glasses or handheld solar viewer the concentrated solar rays could damage the filter and enter your eye(s), causing serious injury."

On the other hand, an associate director for science in the heliophysics science division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Alex Young doled out, "Annular eclipses are similar to total eclipses in that the moon, Earth and sun are aligned so that the moon moves directly in front of the Sun as viewed from Earth.

But a total eclipse does not happen, that is the moon does not completely block out the visible disk of the sun because the moon is farther away and so its apparent size in the sky is slightly smaller than the sun. This means that a tiny ring of the annulus of the solar disk is visible around the moon."

Coming to the Astrologers, this eclipse should not be witnessed by the people who are born in Mrugasheera, Aarudhra, Kruthika (2,3,4) and Rohini, Punarvasu (1,2,3) birth stars. Along with it, people who are born in Vrushaba, Midhuna lagnams shouldn't witness tomorrow's solar eclipse.