On Jan 15, people living in the southern tip of the country at Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu will get to watch the ‘Ring of Fire’ when the moon will cover the sun’s disc during the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse.
However, sky gazers in Delhi will also have something to cheer about as they will get to see more than half of the eclipse.
Annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the moon’s shadow is smaller than that of the visible disc of the sun. The covered sun, therefore, appears as a ‘Ring of Fire’, with its rays appearing spread out from the outline of the moon.
