You should notice a drop in light levels when the sun is around 50% blocked by the sun. However, celestial mechanics means that it varies from a maximum of 4 minutes 29 seconds at the Oregon coast to 4 minutes and 52 seconds as it leaves Texas. Note that the closer you are to the centreline of the path, the longer the ‘ring of fire’ will last. However, as an excuse for a landscape and astrophotography road trip with a bonus close-up of a ‘ring of fire’, it doesn't get much better than this. The fact that you have to use a solar filter to photograph any partial solar eclipse (which, essentially, is what an annular eclipse is) makes it difficult to capture the event in the context of its environment. While an annular solar eclipse is less of a photographic occasion than the upcoming 2024 total solar eclipse (one of which will cross North America on April 8, 2024), the path of annularity this time is a gift to landscape photographers. (Image credit: Michael Zeiler/) Photographing an annular solar eclipse Outside of that path, a number of big cities will enjoy huge a partial solar eclipse, including Denver at 78%, Las Vegas 82%, Dallas 80% and Salt Lake City 86%. As a bonus, many of them are International Dark Sky Parks, so prime locations for wide-field astrophotography.Īfter it departs the US, the ‘ring of fire’ will be visible from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, (where, at 5 minutes 17 seconds, the maximum duration of the ‘ring of fire’ will occur) Panama, Colombia and Brazil. Iconic landscapes of the American West that the ‘ring of fire’ will be visible from include some of Utah’s most famous national parks, the iconic mittens of Monument Valley and the red rocks of the Four Corners region – not to mention some of the geological treasures of Oregon. The attraction of this vast area, of course, is its mess of national parks, state parks, and other spectacular locations for landscape photography. Chronologically, it begins in the morning in Oregon on the US West Coast, before moving southeast across California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas before it exits the US in the late morning. (Image credit: Goh Keng Cheong/Getty Images) Where the annular solar eclipse is happening?Īlthough all of the Americas will enjoy a partial solar eclipse lasting about two-and-a-half hours, you need to be within the 125 miles wide path of annularity to photograph the ‘ring of fire’. This sequence shows the beginning of the eclipse and continues all the way until the ring of fire is formed. The entire sequence of the 2019 annular solar eclipse in Singapore.
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