26 December 2019 Annular Solar Eclipse

As captured from  Bellanvila - Sri Lanka 

Live stream of the eclipse below..

The annular phase of this solar eclipse is visible from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Sri Lanka, and parts of Indonesia, weather permitting. In most of Asia, parts of North/East Africa, and North/West Australia, people can see a partial eclipse.

Video below will detail how it would be visible in different parts of the world. 

The eclipse starts at one location and ends at another. The times below are actual times (in UTC) when the eclipse occurs. 

Event	UTC Time	Time in Sri Lanka
First location to see the partial eclipse begin	26 Dec, 02:29:53	26 Dec, 07:59:53
First location to see the full eclipse begin	26 Dec, 03:34:33	26 Dec, 09:04:33
Maximum Eclipse	26 Dec, 05:17:46	26 Dec, 10:47:46
Last location to see the full eclipse end	26 Dec, 07:00:55	26 Dec, 12:30:55
Last location to see the partial eclipse end	26 Dec, 08:05:40	26 Dec, 13:35:40

For Sri Lankans, to experience the full effect of the eclipse, it's recommended to visit the northern part of Sri Lanka. Below video depicts the path of the shadow. 

It would be ideal to have the full experience as it would be more than a decade before Sri Lanka would experience a similar eclipse

Transit of Mercury

 A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Mercury appears as a tiny black dot moving across the disk of the Sun.

Transits of Mercury with respect to Earth are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per century, in part because Mercury is closer to the Sun and orbits it more rapidly.

Transits of Mercury occur in May or November. The last four transits occurred on May 7, 2003; November 8, 2006; May 9, 2016; and November 11, 2019. The next will occur on November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours.

On June 3, 2014, the Mars rover Curiosity observed the planet Mercury transiting the Sun, marking the first time a planetary transit has been observed from a celestial body besides Earth.

Watch the transit on 11th November below.