• If you're at just the right place in the United States, you can watch an annular eclipse of the sun in the afternoon hours on Sunday, May 20, 2012. If you're in Asia, you will see this same eclipse on the morning on Monday, May 21, 2012.
• Find the time of the eclipse for you using this great online tool, the U.S. Naval Observatory's eclipse computer. This solar eclipse computer gives times in Universal Time. In case the eclipse is cut off by sunset (in the Western Hemisphere), or by sunrise (in the Eastern Hemisphere), this solar eclipse com

puter gives the sunset or sunrise time. For instance, for one of the authors of this post (Bruce McClure in upstate New York) the eclipse starts 10 minutes before sunset. For the other author (Deborah Byrd in Austin), the eclipse starts 47 minutes before sunset. Unless you live in the northwestern part of the U.S. and North America, the eclipse will be happening as the sun sets on May 20, but Deborah will see more of the eclipse - a deeper eclipse of

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