Qatar witnessed this year’s first partial solar eclipse yesterday. It was also the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse, visible in regions in the path of the sun. Such an event is taking place after 106 years.
The eclipse lasted three hours, from 8.10am to 11.11am, with the maximum partial eclipse visible at 9.35am.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the sun.
In an annular solar eclipse, the sun appears as a ring (annulus) with the moon blocking the sun’s light.
Qatar, along with Eastern Europe, most of Africa, Asia and Indonesia, witnessed a partial eclipse as these regions were in the shadow of the moon.
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