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Utah’s view of the annular eclipse is drawing tourists and traffic to southern Utah, with viewing parties also scheduled on the Wasatch Front.
Richfield is expected to draw at least 300,000 visitors, with maximum obscurity there at 10:28 a.m. on Saturday, UDOT said. The heaviest traffic is expected in that area and near Mexican Hat, though drivers throughout the region should expect delays from Friday through Sunday, it said.An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, but appears to be smaller than the sun.
Don’t get distracted, he advises — the full annularity will last less than five minutes, depending on where one sees it. He describes it as “a quick thing that you never forget.”The path of annularity — where the entire disc of the moon moves in front of the sun — is expected to be a narrow band, around 125 miles or so in width.
While an annular eclipse can occur somewhere on Earth once or twice a year, “the rare part is it landing where we are,” Ricketts said. “The path for them is so thin that only a small slice of any country actually gets to see it.”In Utah, the annularity will just miss Zion and Arches national parks on either side of the band, but hit the other three of the “Mighty 5.” Towns in the middle of the band, such as Richfield and Torrey, will see the annularity for more than 4 minutes.
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