Fred Espenak of NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA has forecast that for eclipse fans Friday May 10ths annular solar eclipse will be by far the years most impressive event, though nowhere near as dramatic as any total solar eclipse. An annular solar eclipse is when the moon does not totally cover the whole disc of the sun, so that a ring of daylight is seen around the shadow of the moon.
Friday May 10th 2013 the eclipse will happen over Queensland from 7.27am though weather forecasters are predicting 80% cloud cover on the Australian coast but Andrew Steel, Managing Director of Hot Air Balloon Cairns said that like the 2012 Eclipse event, where a fleet of ten hot air balloons flew with hundreds of visitors from America, the United Kingdom, Japan and China, its expected that visibility will be at its best
Its expected the photographers will see the annular eclipse west of Cairns with almost a scale of 0.9544 of the solar disk covered, and unlike November 2012, the sky will not grow dark. Though all those onboard the hot air balloons will be wearing solar eclipse glasses as the remaining sunlight is so bright.
Hot Air Balloon Cairns Managing Director, Andrew Steel said its expected the balloons will fly to a height of 1000 to 3000 feet above ground level, (plus 900 feet above sea level) dependant on the breeze and conditions on the day.
Other locations worldwide that will experience a smaller viewing of the annular solar eclipse will be Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Zealand.
For those keen eclipse fans, photos of the May 10th annualar eclipse will be featured on the Hot Air Balloon Cairns website. Or for more information about Friday's eclipse, visit NASA's eclipse page at http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html .
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