Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

The annular solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 takes place in the far south of the earth. This is the first eclipse of Saros cycle 148, which is not only purely partial. Furthermore, the darkness with a gamma value of -1.0001 rare limiting case of a non-central annular eclipse Represents the means that the axis of the shadow cone of the Earth's surface just missed, but the darkness in a small area is annular because the zone of the annular eclipse has a certain width. In this darkness, there is therefore also no actual eclipse path but a very small dark surface which lies in the western part of Wilke land in Antarctica.

A partially eclipsed sun can be seen in the southern Indian Ocean and Australia.

The following eclipses

In 2014 there is another eclipse, namely on 23 October. This will be visible from North America. The darkness is but only partially, by any place on earth, the moon stands centrally in front of the sun. The subsequent central eclipse will take place on 20 March 2015. In this total eclipse of the heart shadow over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard pulls away, in their partial phase, the darkness of the whole of Europe can be seen.