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It is on June 21, that the UAE will witness a partial solar eclipse for around three hours, an expert said.
Mohammed Shawkat Awda, representative of the Abu Dhabi-based International Astronomical Centre, said the partial solar eclipse will be seen in all Arab countries, except the Kingdom of Morocco and most areas in Mauritania. And in parts of Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman, an annular eclipse will be spotted. (Solar eclipse 2020: Where you can watch rare 'ring of fire')
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is located between the earth and the sun, and its apparent diametre, is slightly smaller than the apparent diametre of the sun, Shawkat explained.
The #UAE will witness a celestial phenomenon on Sunday 21st June: a Solar Eclipse will:The areas that will witness an annular eclipse are located within a narrow strip starting from southern Sudan with a width of 65km, he added.
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Solar eclipse June 2020
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in years.
Annular eclipses occur when the Moon - passing between Earth and the Sun - is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible. They occur every year or two, and can only been seen from a narrow pathway across the planet. Remarkably, the eclipse on Sunday arrives on the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year - the summer solstice - when Earth's north pole is tilted most directly towards the Sun.
This will be marked by an 86.31% coverage of the disc of the sun by the moon that will be visible in the UAE sky.
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