Solar Eclipse, wonderful

Solar Eclipse in Hawaii on July 22 2009 is just bite size as told by Hawaii Health Guide. It’s a pity I failed to view it by myself.

Things keep changing and sometimes they are unbelievable. Like all solar eclipses, today's solar eclipse only happens during a new moon, for that is when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth.

During a an eclipse, the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are in a straight line during a solar eclipse and the Sun seems to be ‘overshadowed

Celestial logic is it that ensures a lunar eclipse only happens during a full moon, when the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the Earth.

However the "size" of the moon appears larger or smaller during different eclipses, changing the duration of time for the darkness of total eclipse.

Total solar eclipses usually take place about once every 18 months, and always at new Moon - when the lunar body sits directly between the Sun and the Earth.

The next total solar eclipse will occur on 11 July next year. It will be visible in a narrow corridor over the southern hemisphere, from the southern Pacific Ocean to Argentina.

Anticipating, hoping when that day comes, I will enjoy the moment without difficulties or obstructions.