ESA's space weather microsatellite Proba-2 observed the solar eclipse on the evening of 20 May 2012. It passed through the Moon's shadow a total of four times, imaging a sequence of partial solar eclipses in the process. The first contact was made on Sunday May 20 at 21:09 GMT. The last contact finished at 03:04 GMT.
An "annular eclipse" will be visible from a 240 to 300km-wide swathe of Earth stretching from Asia across the Pacific to the western US on Monday. The eclipse is happening at a time that the Moon is at its farthest from the Earth, and therefore does not block out the Sun completely. Viewers can see the resulting "ring of fire" in China from sunrise local time on Monday (from 22:06 GMT Sunday). Read more