Best place to watch
A ring of Sun, in broad daylight
4 hr 0 min from end to end. The Moon is too far away to cover the whole disc.
C1 · First contact
A notch on the edge of the disc
The Moon bites into the disc, and the daylight does not shift for another twenty minutes.
Partial phase
The crescent closes
Half the Sun is gone and nothing has changed: the eye compensates. Past 80 %, the light gives all at once.
The last seconds
The crescent closes on itself
Instead of disappearing, the crescent closes on itself at both ends.
Annularity
A ring of fire
It does not go dark: more light than a heavy overcast, no stars, no corona.
Eye protection stays necessary from beginning to end.
Maximum
From here, the Sun does not disappear
To see the corona you have to be inside the shadow's path. Outside it, even at 99 %, it is day.
C3 · Exit
The ring breaks
The ring breaks on one side and becomes a crescent again, without the shock of a totality.
C4 · Last contact
Over
An annular eclipse returns here once every two centuries. A total one, more rarely still.
Looking at the Sun requires ISO 12312-2 certified protection.
Out of reach
No eclipse visible from here
From this place, the Sun and the Moon do not meet above the horizon. There is nothing to unfold.
The sky is rising