Zimbabwe will be fortunately again to see a second eclipse, which will take place a year and a half later on the 4 th December 2002 this eclipse will pass through the extreme southwest of Zimbabwe. The advantage Zimbabwe has over all other countries in the eclipse path, is that it has an active astronomical society that can assist the tourist industry to get the visitors to the right place. While telescopes can be adapted to partly simulate an eclipse, a real eclipse offers the best visibility for observing the corona. We see its glow extending a million miles from the edge of the sun. These travel 93 million miles to earth and even pass beyond the outer planets.
Eclipses are a time-tested tool of solar astronomy.
Other eclipses showed over time that the corona changes shape in step with the 11 year sunspot cycle.