First annular solar eclipse of 2010 to be seen on Jan 15

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Jan 15 will herald the first annular solar eclipse of the year, also the longest in the millennium.

Ajay Talwar of the Amateur Astronomers Association said: “Not only will this eclipse be the first of the year but also the longest of the third millennium, that is between 2001 and 3000. In India it will start at around 11 am and end at around 3 pm.

“The eclipse will first be seen in south of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and then travel obliquely to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi, where it will enjoy the best view. It will then travel to Kerala and end in Mizoram in the northeast,” he said. The rest of India will see the eclipse only partially, Talwar added.

According to a post on the site of NASA: “On Jan 15, an annular eclipse of the sun is visible from within a 300-km-wide track that traverses half of earth. The path of the moon’s antumbral shadow begins in Africa and passes through Chad,Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia.

“After leaving Africa, the path crosses the Indian Ocean where the maximum duration of annularity reaches 11 minutes 8 seconds. The central path then continues into Asia throughBangladesh, India, Burma(Myanmar) and China.”

According to Talwar, the eclipse will last the maximum in Rameshwaram - 10 minutes and eight seconds.

“As the eclipse passes through different places after that, the duration will lessen. In Kanyakumari, the eclipse will be for around nine minutes and so on,” Talwar said.
“Also, the eclipse will begin at different times in different places. It will be a long eclipse,” he added. - (IANS)


More info


http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_15,_2010

 

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Ya, We Can See it

It will be visible as a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. It will be seen as annular within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala, South Tamil Nadu, North Sri Lanka, Burma and China.

After that enters and exits India at Rameswaram. Only place of land under the eclipse on India. At approx 13.20 hrs IST, there is a annular solar Eclipse of sun over India. The eclipse is viewable for full 10.4 min in India. The best place from India is Dhanushkodi in Pamban Island off Tamil Nadu coast. Dhanushkodi is now a ghost town and it is about 18 km South east from Rameshwaram and 18 Km West of Mannar Island in Sri Lanka.
After Rameswaram, enters Sri Lanka at Delft Island, exits at Jaffna in Sri Lanka, cross Bay of Bengal and ends in Burma - China border. Full data is in the NASA website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_15,_2010