Weather.com - 5/09/13, Weather.com and AP
The moon crossed in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Sydney, Friday, May 10, 2013. At remote outposts across Australia, scientists and spectators gathered to watch as the eclipse castes its approximately 120-mile-wide shadow at dawn over Western Australia, before moving east through the Northern Territory and the top of Queensland state.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
People waking up in the Australian Outback Friday morning, along with other parts of the Pacific, were among the lucky few to witness a "ring of fire" solar eclipse, as the moon slipped between the Earth and the sun, covering everything but a blazing ring of light around the edges.
The eclipse lasted between three and six minutes, depending on its location, and blacked out around 95 percent of the sun at its peak.
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