Uganda: Rare Solar Eclipse Wows Citizens

15 January 2010

Kampala — UGANDANS yesterday had a lifetime opportunity to view the longest annular eclipse of the sun this millennium. In many parts of the country traders, office workers and farmers abandoned their business to view the rare spectacle.

After a bright sunrise, the light started to dim at 7.06 am as the moon started to glide into the sun's way. By about 8.30am in Kampala the sun was visible only as a ring of fire around the obstructing moon, which most people referred to as a fight between the two heavenly bodies. By this time the light was so dim that it looked like dusk was setting in.

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