{"id":9125,"date":"2019-12-26T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayamm.org\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:51:59","slug":"oman-gets-rare-glimpses-of-annular-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/oman-gets-rare-glimpses-of-annular-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman gets rare glimpses of annular solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Muscat:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Sultanate of Oman on Thursday morning witnessed the Annular Eclipse for about three hours. This rarest astronomical phenomenon, also known as \u201cRing of Fire\u201d, started at around 6:30 am in Oman, 10 minutes after sunrise and lasted till 9 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of astronomy lovers and skywatchers including kids, carrying eclipse glasses, gathered across the designated watchpoints set up by the Astronomical Society of Oman to observe the eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is not close enough to the Earth to completely obscure the Sun, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oman witnessed the last annular solar eclipse in 1901. Today\u2019s eclipse lasted for about two hours and 29 minutes in Oman. The eclipse reached its peak around 7:40 am, stayed for almost three minutes and then gradually receded by 9 am. The next annual eclipse will happen on June 21, 2020. Then, this type of eclipse could be seen only after 83 years in the Sultanate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Dhahirah, Al Dhakhiliya, Al Wusta and Al Sharqiyah got a better glimpse of this astronomical delight while the same was seen as a partial eclipse for other governorates in the Sultanate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Annular Solar Eclipse phenomenon is considered a rare natural wonder that is very fascinating to watch. We have planned our holiday to match with the annular eclipse in Oman\u201d, Barron, a tourist from Norway told the Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscat:&nbsp;The Sultanate of Oman on Thursday morning witnessed the Annular Eclipse for about three hours. This rarest astronomical phenomenon, also known as \u201cRing of Fire\u201d, started<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayamm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}