Originally Posted by
Biker395
OK ... I feel stupid for asking this, but how is it that a total eclipse can happen near the poles? I would have thought it to be pretty much limited to areas not much further than the Tropic of Capricon and Tropic of Cancer?
The paths in purple on the map are annular eclipses. The moon is in line with the sun but too far from earth to totally block it so a different experience. I went to see one last year in New Mexico and it wasn't all that special.