Solar eclipse of February 26, 2017

The annular eclipse of 26 February 2017 to observe almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere. Chile, Argentina, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in the zone annular eclipse. The darkness begins 3100 kilometers west of the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, sweeps South America, the southern Atlantic Ocean and ends in southwest Africa.

Halfway through the darkness, the moon will cover the sun for more than 99 percent. The remaining narrow sun ring can be dissected by the unevenness of the lunar landscape already into individual fragments. The duration of the annular phase during the greatest eclipse of the moon is on the central line 44 seconds.

For annular eclipses, which at the time of greatest eclipse of the moon, the sun almost covered and their maximum duration is less than 2 minutes and 18 seconds, the maximum duration of the annular phase is not, however, during the time of greatest darkness, but on the central line at the beginning or end of darkness. In this darkness as the maximum duration of the annular phase is actually theoretically 1 minute and 22 seconds and is at the very beginning of the darkness, she takes up the time of greatest eclipse from solid to then increase again.