Watch this morning’s solar eclipse here
Cape Town was one of thee locations the eclipse was most visible.
The second solar eclipse for the year before the infamous blood moon was mostly visible to South Africans located in Cape Town.
Check out the partial Solar Eclipse this morning. Very cool. Looks like pacman! @WotzupCapeTown pic.twitter.com/tMo8KSMLQu
— TheFairCape (@Thefaircape) September 13, 2015
Our country was be one of three locations to most significant view of the eclipse. The other will be Antarctica and the Southern Indian Ocean.
At the point of the greatest eclipse in Antarctica at 6:54 universal time (ut), the sun was be 79% eclipsed by the moon.
In Cape Town the eclipse will peaked at 5:43ut when the sun where it was 43% covered.
- In Johannesburg it peaked at 7:35am and lasted one hour and 51 minutes
- In Pretoria it peaked at 7:34am and lasted two hours and five minutes
- In Durban it peaked at 7:43am and lasted one hour and 49 minutes
- In Cape Town it peaked at 7:43am and lasted two hours and five minutes
For those who were not fortunate enough to live in the Southern hemisphere of the planet, or for those who were none the wiser about the eclipse this morning, the eclipse can be seen on Slooh who have caught the eclipse through a telescope.
The eclipse on social media this morning:
Partial solar eclipse over South Africa
Credit: K.J. Mulder https://t.co/9xuHk81GVR #eclipse #SouthAfrica pic.twitter.com/DFk1u5hboG— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) September 13, 2015
Partial Solar Eclipse as seen From Durbanville South Africa #SolarEclipse pic.twitter.com/qVv6UttytD
— Leslie Rose (@LeslieJamesRose) September 13, 2015
