Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Thursday, May 9th.  The sun rises at 6:21.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 8:57.  The moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

Solar eclipse  in Pacific.   Later this afternoon our time there will be an annular eclipse of the sun.  However it will only be visible from parts of the Pacific Ocean including Australia.  Since the shadow crosses the International Date Line and the moon’s shadow moves west to east, it start in Australia on the morning of  the 10th, and end far southeast of Hawai’i on evening of the 9th.  An annular eclipse is one in which the moon is farther than average from the earth and cannot cover the whole face of the moon for observers on the earth.  He moon’s farthest distance from the earth this month is called apogee at 252,000 miles next Monday.  The lunar eclipse paired with this is a very slight penumbral eclipse on the 25th, too slight to be noticeable.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Annular eclipse path May 9-10, 2013.
From the Astronomical Almanac Online (USNO, HMNO).

The PDF version of the above image and eclipse times click here.