VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — Parts of Canada will enjoy a solar eclipse Thursday morning, but unfortunately here on the west coast, we’ll have to settle for the livestream.
This will be what’s called an “annular” solar eclipse, and those in the “path of annularity” won’t see the sun totally blocked by the Moon but will instead see a “ring of fire” around the Moon’s edge.
This won’t be like the total solar eclipse we saw in 2017, since the moon is a lot farther away from Earth, and won’t totally block out the sun.
On June 10, an annular ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Canada and the Arctic. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible in other parts of the northern hemisphere, including parts of the eastern U.S. at sunrise. More info: https://t.co/xnDmqxZtZh pic.twitter.com/uY7UowJCmH
— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) June 3, 2021
“Outside this path of annularity, many people in the northern hemisphere have a chance to see a partial solar eclipse … Some locations will only see a very small piece of the Sun covered, while locations closer to the path of annularity can see the Moon cover most of the Sun,” a statement from NASA reads.
That path will be directly above parts of northern Ontario, northern Quebec, and Nunavut while people in Toronto and Ottawa will see about 80 per cent of the sun covered just before 6:00 a.m.
Weather permitting, NASA will be sharing live telescope views of the partial eclipse courtesy of Luc Boulard of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Sudbury Centre. Tune in starting at 2:00 a.m. on the website.