“A few seconds before the sun was all hid, there discovered itself round the moon a luminous ring about a digit, or perhaps a tenth part of the moon‘s diameter, in breadth. It was of a pale whiteness, or rather pearl-colour, seeming to me a little tinged with the colors of the iris, and to be concentric with the moon.”

Refers to a total solar eclipse of 3 May 1715.
From: Edmund Halley. [via Mr Eclipse]

Did you know that the biggest event in Libyan tourism is happening tomorrow? What about an all-inclusive Solar Eclipse vacation in Ghana? Or maybe Western Turkey instead?