Tokyo Citizens Watching the First Solar Eclipse in 173 Years

Ring solar eclipse phenomenon greeted many people in some parts of Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan to the United States. In Japan, this phenomenon can be witnessed by the citizens of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka on Monday morning local time.

Ring solar eclipse or eclipse is also called "ring of fire" can be seen on the Pacific coast in the southwest to the northeast Japan. The eclipse lasts for about four to five minutes. Similarly, as reported by AFP news agency on Monday (5/21/2012).

Partial eclipse begins around 6 am local time in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwest Japan. Then the ring solar eclipse occurred at about 7:20 and about 7:32 pm local time in Tokyo urban area.

For the citizens of Tokyo, this phenomenon is very spectacular. Why, this is the first solar eclipse phenomenon in Tokyo in the last 173 years. A citizen of Japan, Sadanobu Takahashi (60) with his wife who came from Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, intentionally participated in a special tour for 2 days in Tokyo to witness the eclipse from the top of the 54-story building in the district of Roppongi, Tokyo.

"Look, the perfect ring now. Awesome!" Takahashi cried while watching this special phenomenon.

On the streets of Tokyo, commuters start from entrepreneurs to school children stopped to watch the eclipse. They also cheered when she saw the emergence of a solar eclipse the ring.

The phenomenon of solar eclipse is the first in 2012. This eclipse occurs when the moon covers the sun because the moon is at its farthest. Smaller size of the moon than the sun, the moon covered the sun when the disc is formed like a ring of light, where the center of the dark but bright edges.