New Zealanders view partial solar eclipse spectacle
Posted by Greta Simpson on February 8th, 2008
If you were excited about last year’s lunar eclipse, you would have been equally thrilled at the prospect of a rare partial solar eclipse yesterday.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, causing our view of the Sun to be blocked. Yesterday’s spectacle was the first in three years – the next is scheduled in the astronomical calendar for November 14, 2012.
New Zealanders first saw the eclipse in the early evening, just before 6:00pm, when the Moon blocked nearly half the Sun. See what all the fuss was about in this stunning footage of the eclipse…
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