Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming Partial Solar Eclipse on March 29, 2025 — Visibility in North America, Europe, and Africa

Part of the southern hemisphere saw the annual solar eclipse on Wednesday, but with “ring of fire” very visible to few people, in the semi-desert Patagonia of Chile and Argentina.

oh the extreme south of the continent and Easter Island (Chilean) was privileged to fully observe the phenomenonwhich started in the North Pacific and ended in the South Atlantic.

“It was impressive, wonderful. Like a little afternoon”said to AFP Ninoska Huki, 55 years old, from Easter Island, with 7,000 inhabitants, 3,500 kilometers off the coast of Chile, was one of the first to see the annular eclipse at local noon, with “Moai” statues on it ‘ behind.

In the hour of the ring of fire, “there was a lot of wind, which added to the reflection as well, and a sublime moment where we calmly watched the eclipse. “Fantastic Night”, said.

On the other side of the Andes mountain range, in Argentine Patagonia, in Puerto San Julian, a small beach town 2,100 kilometers from Buenos Aires, a few hundred properly covered people braved the cold and wind to see the moon splashing the sun. around 17:25 local time (20:25 GMT)noted AFP.

Small telescopes, special eclipse glasses or welding masks, amateur astronomers, many of whom came with their families, and enthusiasts from afar enjoyed both the wonder and the atmosphere of the place, at the tip of the a continent

Today’s eclipse, specifies the French institute of celestial mechanics and ephemeris calculations (Imcce), This is the 18th annular solar eclipse of the 21st century and the second eclipse of 2024, after the total eclipse in April.

oh the next partial solar eclipse will occur on March 29, 2025seen mostly in western North America, Europe and northwest Africa.

With Lusa