In this astronomical event, most of the sun will be blocked out by the moon; but the moon's apparent diameter, as seen from earth, will appear 4.5% smaller, thus a thin sliver of the sun's light will appear around the moon - what astronomers call a "ring of fire," or an annulus.
The Visayas, Mindanao, Palawan, and some parts of south Luzon will see a partial eclipse between 5:20 and 7:33 am. General Santos City will have one of the best views in the country, where people will be able to see 19.2% of the sun's surface area obscured.The total eclipse will be seen across northwest and northern Australia, parts of Papua New Guinea, and across several Pacific islands, taking a curved path more than 13,000 kilometers long, and between 171 to 225 km in width.
Queensland, Australia, will be one of the best places to view the eclipse - and it will be the state's second solar eclipse in the past 6 months, reports Space.com.
However, the best place to view the eclipse won't be on land - it will be somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, just a bit east of the Marshall Islands and Nauru.
In this spot - called the instant of greatest eclipse - the duration of the eclipse will be 6 minutes 3 seconds long.
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