1, WHAT IS AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE?

2, In an annular eclipse, the moon appears smaller than the sun.

3, People use photographic film strips to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.

4, Chen said the annular eclipse will end at Jiaodong peninsula in China.

5, See annular eclipse pictures.

6, An annular eclipse, in which the Moon sits inside the Sun's disc but does not completely block out its light,[http:///annular eclipse.html] occurs in May 2012 over the North Pacific.

7, Shown in a NASA illustration, the full annular eclipse of January 15, 2010, cast a dark lunar shadow along a 190-mile-wide (300-kilometer-wide) path that traveled across nearly half Earth's surface.

8, During an annular eclipse, the moon covers only the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a ring of sunlight still visible.

9, According to astronomical websites, the last annular eclipse occurred roughly one year ago on January 26, 2009.

10, A sunset annular eclipse would be seen in some areas of Shandong, Guangdong and Taiwan.

11, NASA says the annular eclipse of the Sun began in Africa and passed through the Indian Ocean, where the maximum duration of annularity reached 11 minutes and 8 seconds.

12, Before that, on May 20, 2012, an annular eclipse will be visible from China, Japan, the U.S., and the Pacific Ocean.

13, It was reported that there would be an annular eclipse tomorrow.

14, An annular eclipse occurs when the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun so that a ring of light encircles the shadow of the moon.

15, The eclipses include: total solar eclipse, the partial eclipse and annular eclipse.

16, If you are within this path, you will see an annular eclipse where, at its maximum phase, a ring (annulus) of sunlight surrounds the Moon.

17, As the Moon blocked just the central portion of the Sun, people looking skyward would have seen a fiery ring around the Moon’s perimeter, what is known as an annular eclipse.

18, Viewers as far north as Greece were able to see a partial eclipse during the January 15, 2010, annular eclipse.

19, We have chosen the best place to observe the annular eclipse of the sun.

20, A man uses a photographic film strip to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.