Sunrise special: annular eclipse over Burlington Pier

Skygazers got a treat at around sunrise Thursday morning — “a ring of fire” solar eclipse.

This so-called annular eclipse began in Ontario, then swept across Greenland, the North Pole and finally Siberia.

An annular eclipse occurs when a new moon is around its farthest point from us and appearing smaller. It doesn’t completely blot out the sun.

Farther south, the upper portions of North America, Europe and Asia got a bite-size partial eclipse.

It’s the first eclipse of the sun for North America since August 2017, when a total solar eclipse crisscrossed the U.S.

Drone video of the eclipse over Burlington Pier courtesy: Hill’s.