(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Doha: Qatar residents will have a good chance to sight a partial solar eclipse on the morning of Sunday, June 21, 2020; when it will occur with the time of the conjunction of new crescent of Hijric month "Dhul-Qa' da I 1441 H", Qatar Calendar House (QCH) announced.
The coming solar eclipse will be annular solar eclipse, which will be visible from parts of Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Pakistan, India and China. Meanwhile it will be seen as a partial solar eclipse from South-eastern and Middle of Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, astronomer expert at QCH Dr. Beshir Marzouk said.
The solar eclipse will be seen as a partial eclipse over Qatar sky, starting over at 7:13am Doha local time, while reaching a maximum phase of eclipse at 8:30am, where Moon will cover 80% of Solar disc at the maximum of the solar eclipse on Qatar sky. Finally, the solar eclipse will end over Qatar sky at 10:01am Doha local time.
The duration of all solar eclipse phases over Qatar sky will be two hours and forty-eight minutes from the beginning until the ending of the eclipse.
On December 26, 2019, Qatar residents watched an annular solar eclipse, while on October 25, 2022, the next partial solar eclipse will be seen.
Generally, the solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is fully or partially covered. This can only happen before a new moon phase; when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth.
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