Hyderabad:
Besides Friday's solar eclipse, there will be three more eclipses during the year, B G Siddharth, Director, Birla Science Centre said in Hyderabad.
He said that there will be partial eclipse of the moon on June 26 followed by a total solar eclipse on July 11, 2010 which, however, will not be visible from India.
The last eclipse during the year will be on December 21, a total lunar eclipse, which will also be visible from India. In any given year there are a minimum of two eclipses.
This year there are in all four eclipses. He said in Hyderabad, that the Friday eclipse will begin at 11.30 am and cover 77 per cent of the sun at 1.32 noon. It will be over by 3.15 pm. Inclement weather is likely to play spoilsport.
He said while in Hyderabad the eclipse will be partial as it covers 77 per cent of the sun, it will be annular at the extreme tip of south near Kanyakumari where one can see the peripheral ring with the sun being covered 92 per cent and a ring like formation will be seen.
Siddharth cautioned the people that the eclipse should not be seen with an X-ray films or through smoked glasses or photographic films but should be seen only through certified solar eclipse special goggles or certified solar filters.
The path of eclipse on Friday begins in central Africa, will cross the Indian Ocean to touch the southern tip of India and then moves on to southeast Asia, ending in southeastern China.
The maximum duration of solar eclipse will be in South India for 11 minutes 10 seconds. At first the eclipse will be seen in Kanyakumari and then it will move diagonally to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi and then move to Kerala. It will end in the North-eastern state Mizoram.
He said that there will be partial eclipse of the moon on June 26 followed by a total solar eclipse on July 11, 2010 which, however, will not be visible from India.
The last eclipse during the year will be on December 21, a total lunar eclipse, which will also be visible from India. In any given year there are a minimum of two eclipses.
This year there are in all four eclipses. He said in Hyderabad, that the Friday eclipse will begin at 11.30 am and cover 77 per cent of the sun at 1.32 noon. It will be over by 3.15 pm. Inclement weather is likely to play spoilsport.
He said while in Hyderabad the eclipse will be partial as it covers 77 per cent of the sun, it will be annular at the extreme tip of south near Kanyakumari where one can see the peripheral ring with the sun being covered 92 per cent and a ring like formation will be seen.
Siddharth cautioned the people that the eclipse should not be seen with an X-ray films or through smoked glasses or photographic films but should be seen only through certified solar eclipse special goggles or certified solar filters.
The path of eclipse on Friday begins in central Africa, will cross the Indian Ocean to touch the southern tip of India and then moves on to southeast Asia, ending in southeastern China.
The maximum duration of solar eclipse will be in South India for 11 minutes 10 seconds. At first the eclipse will be seen in Kanyakumari and then it will move diagonally to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi and then move to Kerala. It will end in the North-eastern state Mizoram.
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