Overview
- Authoritative schedules place the event from about 09:56 to 14:27 UTC, with the annular phase roughly 11:42–12:41 UTC and a peak lasting about two to two minutes twenty seconds.
- The Moon will be near apogee and cover about 96–96.3% of the Sun, yielding a sharply defined ring for only a brief interval.
- The path of annularity runs over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, while partial phases will reach southern Argentina and Chile as well as regions of southern Africa; it will not be visible in Mexico or Peru.
- Space agencies and observatories stress eye safety, advising ISO 12312-2 certified eclipse viewers or indirect projection and warning never to look at the Sun without proper protection.
- This eclipse opens a busy year that includes a 12 August total solar eclipse over Spain, Greenland and Iceland, which is already driving scientific campaigns and tourism planning in Aragón.