November's an excellent month for solar eclipse celestial shadow play. Stargazers will get two eclipses in about as many weeks, the first a amazing total solar eclipse that will showcase the sun's corona impending peak activity, and the second a subtler lunar eclipse that will be visible across much of the United States.
The theatrics solar start
on Nov. 13, when residents of northeastern Australia obtain a false-start
sunrise. Just an hour past the sun breaks the horizon in the coastal city of
Cairns, it will be fully buried by the moon, whose shadow will darken the sky
and take the stars back into view for 2 minutes there.
Observers in the Eastern United States will overlook out on
the lunar eclipse, as the moon will by now have set there when the eclipse
begins. But the rest of the country can watch at least part of it, with the period
of visibility highest for people on the West Coast and in Alaska.
Sky watchers approximately the world
can use this NASA graphic to verify if they’ll be able to watch the solar
eclipse from their backyard.
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