![]() However the eclipse wouldn’t end until after 8 pm, add another 6 hour drive to that and it being a school night and my wife having to work in the morning, it just wasn’t going to happen. I wanted to be believe me, the best views were only a 6 hour drive away in the red rock splendor of southern Utah. ![]() Unfortunately I was not one of those people! These are rare enough that thousands of people traveled great distances just to see the brief event (~4minutes long at it’s maximum coverage for this particular eclipse.) On three celestial orbs of varying size,density and composition aligned briefly to create a spectacular vision of a ring of fire in the sky commonly referred to as an “Annular Eclipse” this is where the moon is too small to completely cover the Sun and instead leaves a ring of light visible around the dark silhouette of the moon.
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