Thetotal solar eclipseswept across sky in East Asia , South Asia , Australia , and Hawaii on the morning of March 9 – and spectator certainly were n’t disappoint .
The supernal event was most clearly and fully revalue from Indonesia , where it kept some areas in near - darkness for just under 3 minutes . A fond eclipse was seeable in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia .
outer space lookout and social medium user alike have been showing off the yield of their dawn stargazing , with thousands of images and video flooding Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , and other websites .
Here ’s some of the fine .
This GIF comes fromSlooh , who also experience - streamed a program of the event with a chemical group of stargazer . Slooh .
Indonesians use special sunglasses to observe the solar eclipse in Jakarta , Indonesia on March 09 , 2016 . The unbelievable natural phenomenon is seeable on a path that starts in the Indian Ocean and slices across Indonesia including Sumatra , Kalimantan and Sulawesi . Agoes Rudianto / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images .
A photo posted by محمد خاي دير ( @muhammad.chaidir)onMar 8 , 2016 at 9:06pm Pacific Time
Taken in Tugu Perdamaian Nosarara Nosabatutu , Palu , Indonesia.muhammad.chaidir/Instagram
A exposure mail by Erri Setyawan ( @errids)onMar 9 , 2016 at 1:54am PST
Over the Tugu Yogyakarta , a repository used to represent the city of Yogyakarta , Indonesia.errids/Instagram
A picture posted by Karen Ashley Ng ( @renzze)onMar 9 , 2016 at 1:23am Pacific Standard Time
As seen from the coast of Singapore.renzze/Instagram
A picture post by Jalie Gay Sabado ( @jahley)onMar 9 , 2016 at 3:24am PST
The partial occultation over Cebu City , Philippines.jahley/Instagram
Even Google ’s Doodle of the mean solar day , in function of Australasia and south Asia , paid homage to the full occultation . Olivia Huynh / Google
