{"id":12457,"date":"2019-12-26T19:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2019-12-26T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:01:23","slug":"telescopes-out-across-asia-as-ring-of-fire-appears-in-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12457","title":{"rendered":"Telescopes Out Across Asia As &#8220;Ring Of Fire&#8221; Appears In The Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People from across the Asia gathered to witness the final solar eclipse of the decade, got treated to a \u201cring of fire\u201d eclipse on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The eclipse was visible from the Middle East to Pakistan and Singapore, where people bundled up in a large number to watch the natural phenomena unfold. Observers labeled the phenomena as the \u2018ring of fire\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While these types of eclipses occur every year or two, they are only visible from a narrow band of Earth each time and it can be decades before the same pattern is repeated. Depending on weather conditions, this year&#8217;s astronomical phenomenon was set to be visible from the Middle East across southern India and Southeast Asia before ending over the northern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The amateur astronomers and observers across Asia set up their stations using special filtered telescopes and spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People were keen to witness the\u00a0 eclipse calling it a \u2018once in a lifetime\u2019 experience. The next annual eclipse in June 2020 will be visible to a narrow band from Africa to northern Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People from across the Asia gathered to witness the final solar eclipse of the decade, got treated to a \u201cring of fire\u201d eclipse on Thursday. &nbsp; The eclipse was visible from the Middle East to Pakistan and Singapore, where people bundled up in a large number to watch the natural phenomena unfold. Observers labeled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12458,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/12458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}