... Sun, Moon, Hot Air Balloon . ... Anticipating the celestial shadow play of a solar eclipse, sky gazers across Germany watched the Sun rise on May 31. ... If the Moon's apparent diameter is not quite large enough to cover the Sun during a solar eclipse, an annular eclipse can be the result -- a spectacle of silhouetted Moon surrounded by a solar "ring of fire". ... The Sun and Moon rose together over much of Europe on the morning of May 31st with the first solar eclipse of 2003 already in progress. ...