Celestial dance in Festive Times: The Ring of Fire to end the Decade as seen from GOA, India

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South India experienced a Celestial spectal of an Annular eclipse(Ring of Fire) on 26 Dec 2019 to end the Decade. 100% totality was withnessed in cities like Mangalore, Masargood Coimbatore and Erode.

Goa my Homestate lies on the West coast pf India about 363 miles south of Mumbai and 225 miles north of mangalore. The eclipse was Maximum at 9:25 HRS Indian standard time (3:55 A.M IST) with 82 % of the Sun covered by the Moons Shadow.

Amidst Christmas celebrations on the same Day My Village called St.Estevam Island celebrated the Village Church Feast of St.Stephen. Truly the Eclipse was a celestial Dance in Festive Times. Below are some Pics of this event

Below Pics taken from a 10 Inch reflector Dobsonian Mount telescope and an Orion 3PX astro Camera

Celestial dance 1

Celestial dance 2

And Below are the Pics taken from a 2.7 Inch celestron refractor telescope and a 4 PX vivo mobile camera

Celestial dance 3

Below are the different Telescopes/Cameras to view thie eclipse from my backyard.

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Celestial dance in Festive Times: The Ring of Fire to end the Decade as seen from GOA, India

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