Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013

The annular eclipse of 10 May 2013, after the total solar eclipse of 13 November 2012, the second in Australia central eclipse visible within half a year. In contrast to this previous eclipse in this case, the apparent diameter of the moon is not enough to completely cover the sun, there are only three days between new moon and perigee the moon. The largest coverage is 91.5 percent.

Course

The annular phase of the eclipse begins near the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia. The morning sun is there only 2 degrees above the horizon. The eclipse path extends northeastward through very sparsely populated desert area and reached the Gulf of Carpentaria. On the east of the gulf lie the Cape York Peninsula of darkness path crosses the darkness of November 12, 2012, which spread, in contrast to the darkness of this in a southeasterly direction. With 5000 kilometers per hour, the Moon's shadow moves to the northeast, passes over the Great Barrier Reef and on the Pacific. After 800 kilometers, across the sea zone of the annular visibility Guinea, the island of Woodlark and Solomon Islands touched. In the course of the coral island of Nauru is swept, then the Gilbert Islands. About 5000 kilometers west of the Peruvian coast ends the annular phase of the eclipse.

Partially it can be seen the darkness by Indonesia and New Zealand.

Weather outlook

In the Australian desert can be expected with clear or only slightly cloudy skies with a 70 percent probability, on the east coast, the prospects are slightly less favorable. In the tropical New Guinea, the rainy season is in March to the end, to the east lie the Solomon Islands, there is semi-tropical climate and the rainy season ends there in April.