Sometimes, during a total solar eclipse, the corona of sun is visible to our eyes.
CORONACORONA
chromosphere
corona
No single eclipse ... solar or lunar ... is ever visible from every place on earth.No single solar eclipse is ever visible from every place or even half of the earth.
The Umbra
There were partial solar eclipses visible from Phoenix including a 71% eclipse on April 7, 1940. There were no total solar eclipses visible in Phoenix during the 1940's.
The corona.
The outermost layer of the sun, corona, is visible during a total solar eclipse.
The ring visible as the moon passes in front of the sun during a solar eclipse is called the corona. This appears durian a total solar eclipse, when the apparent size of the moon is larger than the sun.During an annular eclipse, where the moon's apparent size is smaller than the sun, the ring visible around the moon is called the annulus.
If there is a total lunar eclipse, everybody sees it as total. If there is a total solar eclipse, only people in a small part of Earth see it as total - most will see it as a partial eclipse, or not at all.
The next solar eclipse will be a total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009. The eclipse will be visible in a path from northern India through China and across the Pacific ocean. It will not be visible in Europe or the Americas.
The last total solar eclipse for Dallas was Feb 20th 2008