20th June 1955

On average, the same spot on Earth only gets to see a solar eclipse for a few minutes about every 375 years! Caution! Never look directly at the Sun, even for a second! It will damage your eyesight forever!

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Here are some of the most famous eclipses in history.

• Ugarit Eclipse.
• Early Chinese Eclipse.
• Assyrian Eclipse.
• The Crucifixion of Jesus.
• Birth of Mohammed.
• King Henry’s Eclipse.
• Einstein’s Eclipse.

Edmund Halley

1- DO NOT look directly at the sun. 2- DO NOT use ordinary sunglasses or home-made filters to view a Solar Eclipse or Surya Grahan. 3- ONLY use special-purpose solar filters– eclipse glasses, handheld solar viewers– to view the eclipse. 4- Read the instructions given on the solar filters and follow them accordingly.

What is a “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse? It’s a special kind of partial solar eclipse. It occurs when a new moon is furthest away from Earth on its elliptical orbit — basically the opposite of a “supermoon” — so it doesn’t cover the sun’s disk completely.

Observers on Venus would have no moon to cause an eclipse, and while orbital geometry allows for transits of Mercury, none can be seen from the surface because of the thick, obscuring clouds. Earth observers can view transits of both Mercury and Venus, the last being a transit of Venus on June 5, 2012.

Venus transits occur when Venus reaches a point in its orbit that brings the planet directly between the Earth and the sun. Since the tilt of Venus’ orbit isn’t exactly the same as that of Earth, the events are rare, occurring just four times every 243 years.

Since Venus does not experience rainfall (except in the form of sulfuric acid), it has been theorized that the lightning is being caused by a volcanic eruption. What is the weather like on Venus?