May 20 · 2012
Tomorrow’s Forecast: A Ring of Fire over the Ring of Fire?   This Annular Eclipse, which is already happening, will be visible in Manila tomorrow, Monday, May 21st between 4:56AM to 10:49AM, and is also being called the “ring of fire” which apparently will cast over parts of the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere in the Pacific Ring of Fire areas… Say what?! Yeah.  Cool noh? photo source Like total solar eclipses, annular solar eclipses are quite rare. They can only be observed during New Moon, when the Sun is near one of the nodes of the lunar orbit, so Earth, Sun and Moon form a straight line, the Moon is at apogee, and the observer is located in the path of the Moon’s antumbra. I hope we’ll be able to see it. Most likely we won’t due to a very cloudy day :( If anyone feels “crap-tastic”, you can still blame the moon for some erratic emotional disheveling. Hehehe!

Tomorrow’s Forecast: A Ring of Fire over the Ring of Fire?  

This Annular Eclipse, which is already happening, will be visible in Manila tomorrow, Monday, May 21st between 4:56AM to 10:49AM, and is also being called the “ring of fire” which apparently will cast over parts of the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere in the Pacific Ring of Fire areas…

Say what?! Yeah.  Cool noh?

Annular Eclipse over the Pacific Ring of Fire
photo source

Like total solar eclipses, annular solar eclipses are quite rare. They can only be observed during New Moon, when the Sun is near one of the nodes of the lunar orbit, so Earth, Sun and Moon form a straight line, the Moon is at apogee, and the observer is located in the path of the Moon’s antumbra.

I hope we’ll be able to see it. Most likely we won’t due to a very cloudy day :( If anyone feels “crap-tastic”, you can still blame the moon for some erratic emotional disheveling. Hehehe!

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    • May 17 · 2012
    The Moon during sunrise, May 16th 2012, 5:10AM

    The Moon during sunrise, May 16th 2012, 5:10AM

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    • Apr 20 · 2012
    Ave Maria IslandGuimaras, Iloilo, PH 

    Ave Maria Island
    Guimaras, Iloilo, PH 

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    • Jun 3 · 2011
    The afternoon sun while wearing polarized sunglasses. Of course my samsung phone cam didn’t do justice to how I really saw it. Oh well. June 3, 2011 at 4:42PMMuntinlupa, Philippines 

    The afternoon sun while wearing polarized sunglasses. Of course my samsung phone cam didn’t do justice to how I really saw it. Oh well.

    June 3, 2011 at 4:42PM
    Muntinlupa, Philippines 

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    • May 18 · 2011
    While waiting for the rain to come. It didn’t. The thunder and the wind were just teasing me. But at least the weather is cooler now.May 18, 2011 at 2:30PM 

    While waiting for the rain to come. It didn’t. The thunder and the wind were just teasing me. But at least the weather is cooler now.
    May 18, 2011 at 2:30PM 

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