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Northern and eastern sections of North America will experience a weird and dramatic event next Thursday (June 10).

A partial solar eclipse will be visible, and for many, it will more or less coincide with sunrise. Only for places north of a line running roughly from Churchill, Manitoba, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, will the entire eclipse be visible from start to finish after the sun rises. Elsewhere, depending on where you are, if your sky is clear toward the east-northeast, the rising sun will appear slightly dented, deeply crescent shaped, or even ring shaped.

Across a swath of central and eastern Canada — encompassing the provinces of western and northern Ontario and a slice of northwest Quebec, as well as eastern Nunavut, Canada's newest territory — viewers living within a path averaging about 390 miles (630 kilometers) wide will have a front-row seat to witness the rare and exciting spectacle of an annular or "ring of fire" solar eclipse.

Because the moon will be just 57 hours past apogee, its farthest point from Earth during its orbit, it will appear somewhat smaller than usual — smaller than the apparent disk of the sun. It is for this reason that viewers in the shadow's center will get an annular rather than a total eclipse: the sun will become a brilliant ring (or annulus) of light encircling the moon's dark silhouette for several minutes.

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an annular or "ring of fire" solar eclipse

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
I’m going to try to catch it here. My normal wake up is 5:30 and the sun rises at 5:35. It’s supposed to reach maximum at 5:40 so I could get lucky!

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
I caught the tail end of it. At sunrise there is just too much “stuff” on the horizon in our neighbourhood to see the sun. But I went out with wing glasses at around 6 and was able to see a nice chunk cut out of the sun. No pictures as I (happily) no longer have a “real” camera.

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Originally posted by wtg:

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
I caught the tail end of it. At sunrise there is just too much “stuff” on the horizon in our neighbourhood to see the sun. But I went out with wing glasses at around 6 and was able to see a nice chunk cut out of the sun. No pictures as I (happily) no longer have a “real” camera.

You have an real gift for photography; I remember fondly your daily posts of pics....

Are you taking photos, but without the clunky gear?