Ibrahim Al Jarwan, a member of the Arab Federation for Space and Astronomy, expected that the southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula will witness an annular eclipse of the sun on Sunday, June 21, and the eclipse will be partially witnessed in the Emirates by more than 93% at the southwestern outskirts of the country, and 82% in the island regions , Where it will start at 08:12, and end at 11:12 local time, and its peak will be at 09:35 local time in the Emirates.
Al-Jarwan said: "The eclipse will be partially seen in the rest of the Arabian Peninsula, where it will be 60% in the northern regions of the Arabian Peninsula, and it will be seen in the rest of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and other regions in Asia in varying proportions."
He explained that the eclipse occurs when the moon’s disk passes in front of the sun’s disk, in various forms depending on the distance of the moon and the location of the sun’s and moon’s centers, either partially, completely or annularly, and because of the oval moon’s orbit around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the sun, the annular eclipse occurs when the moon is at a point Far from Earth (the apogee of the moon), therefore, the width of the path of the annular eclipse is usually greater than the total eclipse, and the largest width of the path of the total eclipse of the sun does not exceed 270 km in rare cases and is usually below that, as the period of the annular eclipse may reach 12 minutes, while the maximum duration of a total eclipse is seven minutes in the same area.
He pointed out that the eclipse of the sun is more occurring than the lunar eclipse, where it occurs at least twice annually, and may reach five cases per year, but it is rare to occur in the same region of the earth on close periods, especially the partial or annular eclipse of the sun, while watching More than half of Earth's population is a lunar eclipse phenomenon.
The path of the annular eclipse
Ibrahim Al Jarwan, a member of the Arab Federation for Space and Astronomy, pointed out that the ring eclipse path, which will reach a width of only about 75 km, starts from central Africa at 03:46 UTC, and passes through Sudan, Ethiopia, then Yemen near the capital Sanaa and some Saudi desert areas Then, it passes in Oman south of the capital, Muscat, then moves to Pakistan and north India, where the eclipse peak is at 06:40 UTC, then to China and the countries of Southeast Asia, and ends in the Pacific Ocean at 09:34 UTC.
Watch the eclipse by 60% in the northern regions of the Arabian Peninsula.