A solar eclipse that reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a black disk has entered the record books as the longest “annular” eclipse for 1000 years.
The phenomenon which lasted eleven minutes and eight seconds, set a record that will not be beaten for another millennium.
An “annular” eclipse means the moon only blocks the sun’s middle therefore creating a ring, and could be seen across parts of Central Africa, the Maldives, southern India, northern Sri Lanka, parts of Myanmar and China.
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