Tomorrow’s new Moon will cause a solar eclipse, but a partial one, and the penumbra or outer shadow of the Moon will sweep over the southern Pacific, as shown in this picture from page 102 of Astronomical Calendar 2025.
From our northern lands, if you glance (cautiously) toward the Sun in the south around noon, you can “in the mind’s eye” see the invisible Moon sliding past below it from right to left.
When that Moon deigns to be seen in the evening sky, it will announce Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the Hebrew year 5786.
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