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An
"annular eclipse" will be visible from a 240 to 300km-wide swathe of
Earth stretching from Asia across the Pacific to the western US on Monday.
The eclipse
is happening at a time that the Moon is at its farthest from the Earth, and
therefore does not block out the Sun completely.
Viewers can
see the resulting "ring of fire" in China from sunrise local time on
Monday (from 22:06 GMT Sunday).
From most
parts of the path, it will last about four and a half minutes.
The eclipse
will trace a path over Japan, almost directly over Tokyo (22:32 GMT) before
crossing the Pacific, passing just below Alaska's Aleutian islands, and making
landfall over the Oregon/California border (01:23 GMT Monday).
The
3.5-hour event will become less visible as it reaches Texas on Sunday evening
local time.
It will be
possible to see partial views of the eclipse across much of east Asia and North
America.
The Slooh
series of space telescopes will be covering the event on its website from about
21:30 GMT.
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