Eclipse 2005
A woman views a solar eclipse in Copenhagen, Denmark Monday Oct. 3, 2005. Thousands of people across Europe donned protective eyeglasses Monday to watch a rare and spectacular type of eclipse, which dimmed parts of the European continent and Africa beginning around 10 a.m. During an annular eclipse, the moon masks the sun like a black plate, leaving a bright, fiery rim. The moon was too small to blot out the sun completely, as in a total eclipse, because its elliptical orbit has taken it too far from the earth.