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How and When to Watch Thursday's Solar Eclipse
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By Bill McEwen, News Director
Published 4 years ago on
June 7, 2021

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A spectacular “ring of fire” solar eclipse will take place early Thursday and will be visible to people in the arctic reaches of Canada, Greenland, and northern Russia.

In addition, some sky gazers elsewhere — including the northeastern United States — will see a fiery crescent partial eclipse.

But unlike the spectacular blood moon total eclipse on May 26, the first solar eclipse seen in the U.S. since 2017 won’t be visible on the West Coast.

How to Watch Solar Eclipse

However, you can still see it.

Cosmosapiens, a YouTube channel with 1.84 million subscribers, will live stream the solar eclipse at this link.

Coverage of the eclipse is scheduled to begin at 08:12 UTC (coordinated universal time). That converts to 1:12 a.m., PDT, Thursday. The eclipse ends at 6:11 a.m., PDT.

Other websites are live streaming the eclipse as well. Among them: timeanddate.com.

Ring of Fire Explained

NASA says that the annular phase of the solar eclipse, which produces the ring of fire effect, occurs when “the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky. Since the Moon does not block the entire view of the Sun, it will look like a dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk.”

A crescent shape solar eclipse results from the partial obscuring of the sun as it rises.

A partial solar eclipse producing a fiery crescent shape. (Shutterstock)

 

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Bill McEwen,
News Director
Bill McEwen is news director and columnist for GV Wire. He joined GV Wire in August 2017 after 37 years at The Fresno Bee. With The Bee, he served as Opinion Editor, City Hall reporter, Metro columnist, sports columnist and sports editor through the years. His work has been frequently honored by the California Newspapers Publishers Association, including authoring first-place editorials in 2015 and 2016. Bill and his wife, Karen, are proud parents of two adult sons, and they have two grandsons. You can contact Bill at 559-492-4031 or at Send an Email

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