An annular
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
occurred at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on May 31, 2003. A
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
occurs when the
Moon passes between
Earth and the
Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's
apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an
annulus
Annulus (or anulus) or annular indicates a ring- or donut-shaped area or structure. It may refer to:
Human anatomy
* ''Anulus fibrosus disci intervertebralis'', spinal structure
* Annulus of Zinn, a.k.a. annular tendon or ''anulus tendineus com ...
(ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Annularity was visible across central
Greenland, the
Faroe Islands,
Iceland,
Jan Mayen and northern
Scotland. Partiality was visible throughout
Europe,
Asia, and far northwestern
Canada.
Images
File:Garrulus - Eclips boven Chassepierre (by).jpg, Chassepierre, Belgium
File:Eclipse--31-05-2003-2.jpg, From Belfort, France
File:Sunrise Eclipse 2003 May 31.jpg, Wonneberg, Germany
File:20030531 Oria (30847677046).jpg, From Oria, Italy
File:Sun eclipse venice 5.31.2003 (32682446663).jpg, From Venice, Italy
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islan ...
File:Zonsverduistering mei 2003 WIlleskop.jpg, Willeskop
Willeskop is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the municipality of Montfoort, 2 km east of that city.
Willeskop was a separate municipality between 1818 and 1989, when it was merged with Montfoort. A small part went ...
, Netherlands
File:Solareclipse1 (1683459168).jpg, From Oslo, Norway
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
File:Solar eclipse Ringerike 2003.jpg, From Ringerike, Norway
File:Annular eclipse from Tom Mor - near maximum (geograph 1662570).jpg, Grantown-on-Spey
Grantown-on-Spey ( gd, Baile nan Granndach) is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray. It is located on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, abou ...
, Scotland
Related eclipses
Eclipse season
An eclipse season is the period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Moon's tilted orbital plane ( tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane), just as Earth's we ...
This is the second eclipse this season.
First eclipse this season:
16 May 2003 Total Lunar Eclipse
Eclipses of 2003
*
A total lunar eclipse on May 16.
* An annular solar eclipse (one limit) on May 31.
*
A total lunar eclipse on November 9.
*
A total solar eclipse on November 23.
Tzolkinex
* Preceded:
Solar eclipse of April 17, 1996
A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 17, 1996. A solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an al ...
* Followed:
Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010
The total solar eclipse of July 11, 2010, occurred over the southern Pacific Ocean. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total ...
Half-Saros
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of May 25, 1994
* Followed:
Lunar eclipse of June 4, 2012
Tritos
* Preceded:
Solar eclipse of June 30, 1992
A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1992. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon' ...
* Followed:
Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
Solar Saros 147
* Preceded:
Solar eclipse of May 19, 1985
* Followed:
Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021
An annular solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, June 10, 2021, when the Moon passed between Earth and the Sun, thereby partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. During the eclipse, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller than t ...
Inex
* Preceded:
Solar eclipse of June 20, 1974
* Followed:
Solar eclipse of May 9, 2032
Solar eclipses 2000–2003
Saros 147
Tritos series
Metonic series
See also
*
List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom 1000–2090 AD
Notes
References
Photos:
Spaceweather.com solar eclipse gallery APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). According to the website, "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written ...
6/4/2003, Dawn partial from Charneux, Belgium
Ring of Fire from Cape Wrath APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). According to the website, "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written ...
6/5/2003, Annular eclipse from
Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath ( gd, Am Parbh, known as ' in Lewis) is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain.
The cape is separated from the rest of the ...
, northwestern coast of Scotland
Sun, Moon, Hot Air Balloon APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). According to the website, "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written ...
6/6/2003, partial eclipse from
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
Clouds and the Moon Move to Block the Sun APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). According to the website, "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written ...
6/18/2003, partial eclipse from
Vienna
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Austria
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