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'Ring of Fire' eclipse, summer solstice to fall on Father's Day

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Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/12/26/20191226-solar-eclipse-rtr.jpg"/><figcaption>People take photos with their smartphones as they monitor the annular solar eclipse on Jabal Arba in Hofuf, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Dec. 26, 2019. <em>Hamad I Mohammed, Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — Two astronomical events will fall on Father&#x27;s Day, June 21: namely, the annular solar eclipse and summer solstice, the weather bureau said Friday. </p><p>An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is not close enough to the Earth to completely obscure the Sun, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible. </p><p>The eclipse can be viewed in any part of the country, but the &quot;obscuration&quot; or part of the sun covered by the Moon will be bigger farther up Luzon, PAGASA weather forecaster Ghela Lequiron said in a press conference. </p><p>Itbayat, Batanes will have the biggest obscuration at 91 percent while Quezon City for instance will tally about 68 percent; Visayas, 52 to 66 percent; and Mindanao, 42 to 56 percent, she said. </p><p>The eclipse will run from 3 to 5:30 p.m., said Lequiron. <br/> <br/>While these types of eclipses occur every year or 2, they are only visible from a narrow band of Earth each time and it can be decades before the same pattern is repeated.</p><p>Sunday&#x27;s eclipse will be visible from a track that goes across Most of Africa, Southeast Europe, Asia and Micronesia. Viewed from neighboring Taiwan&#x27;s Chiayi City, the eclipse will cover 97.5 percent of the sun for about 58 seconds, said Lequiron. </p><p>An annular eclipse last Dec. 26, 2019 was observable only in the southernmost tip of the Philippines, while it appeared in the rest of the country as a partial eclipse. </p><p>The Philippines will have to wait for 43 years or until Feb. 28 2063 before it can observe another annular solar eclipse. </p><div>The next partial solar eclipse that can be observed from the Philippines will happen on July 22, 2028. <br/><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" allowtransparency="true" frameBorder="0" height="451" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPAGASA.DOST.GOV.PH%2Fvideos%2F286080512576543%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="560"></iframe></div><p>Lequiron advised the public not to stare directly at the eclipse because this may damage the eyes, and instead use glasses, binoculars and telescopes with special solar filters.</p><p>The public may also view the eclipse through welder&#x27;s goggles, water reflection or pinholes on a cardboard sheet or paper. </p><p>Also on June 21, the Philippines will experience its shortest night and longest daytime during the summer solstice. </p><p>A solstice is an astronomical event during which the sun is at its greatest northerly or southerly distance from the equator.</p><div><strong>— With a report from Agence France-Presse </strong></div>

<p>Two astronomical events will fall on Father's Day, June 21: namely, the annular solar eclipse and summer solstice, the weather bureau said Friday.</p>

Two astronomical events will fall on Father's Day, June 21: namely, the annular solar eclipse and summer solstice, the weather bureau said Friday.

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'Ring of Fire' eclipse, summer solstice to fall on Father's Day

Jamaine Punzalan,

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Published Jun 19, 2020 12:42 PM PHT

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