finally tonight, the finally tonight, the ring of fire up close. rob marciano takes us up in the air. >> reporter: just after sunrise this morning, the moon at its furthest point from the earth passed in front of the sun for an annular eclipse and creating what's called the ring of fire. in new york city, it appeared like a crescent moon. beautiful, but this was just a partial eclipse. the annular eclipse's path traveling through ontario, across greenland, over the north pole and through siberia. here we go. so to get the full ring of fire experience, we flew on a special sky and telescope charter flight dubbed "eclipse air." >> welcome aboard our eclipse flight today. we're all excited to get under way. >> reporter: taking off from minneapolis, more than 30 die hard eclipse chasers with a window seat to this cosmic event.