![]() "This October I'm expecting beads for one or two minutes, and it's going to be a striking sight." Zeiler continued. "I saw Baily's beads for a few seconds near the centerline at the 2012 annular through solar-filtered binoculars, and that was the best aspect of that eclipse for me," Michael Zeiler, a solar eclipse cartographer at, told. You must still wear solar eclipse glasses, or use binoculars and telescopes with solar filters attached at all times during an annular solar eclipse, but the fizzing of Bailey's beads can be quite the sight. Stand at either the northern or southern limits of the path during an annular solar eclipse and you see not a "ring of fire" but the edge of the moon appearing to touch the edge of the sun - just as you do during a total solar eclipse.Ĭhiefly, you see a "broken ring" as Baily's beads - sunlight streaming through gaps between the mountains on the moon - fizz around the lunar limb from one side to the other over a few minutes. ![]()
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