Eclipse will be visible in some form across Australia and Indonesia, and in parts of New Zealand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea
In Australia, only lucky viewers in the state of Western Australia will be able to experience the total eclipse. People in other parts of the country will be outside the area totally covered by the moon’s inner shadow. In other states, the event will be a partial eclipse, with the sun only being obscured to varying extents.
Perth will reach maximum eclipse at 11.21am local time, Melbourne at 2.09pm and Sydney at 2.29pm. Darwin is the capital city that will come closest to totality, reaching maximum eclipse at 1.52pm.
Along Australia’s east coast, only a partial eclipse will occur. Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University says, “The sky won’t dramatically change. But if you do have equipment you would notice that part of the sun’s missing. In some ways, it’s kind of cool because you can still see the sun looking like Pac-Man.
The moon passing in front of the sun during a partial eclipse viewed through glass from a welding visor.This is what people look like watching eclipses through welding masks: People uses a welding helmet to look at a partial solar eclipse in Ghazni, Afghanistan, 21 June 2020.A man watches a solar eclipse with a welding helmet on, in Valparaíso, Chile 14 December 2020.A man uses a welding helmet to look at a partial solar eclipse in Peshawar, Pakistan, 21 June 2020.
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