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Solar Eclipse January 2010

January 14, 2010 / 19 Comments

There will be a solar eclipse on 15 January 2010. This will be the first eclipse of 2010 and will be more precisely an annular solar eclipse with an estimated magnitude of 0.9190. Update: We have posted photos of the eclipse taken from Mauritius here.

Solar Eclipse January 2010

 

An annular solar eclipse is different from a total solar eclipse in the way that the apparent diameter of the moon seems smaller than the sun’s diameter. This is due to the moon being further away from earth. Therefore the eclipse will make the sun looks like an annulus (e.i ring).

The eclipse will be visible across certain part of Central Africa, Maldives, South India, Sri Lanka, Burma and parts of China. Check the animation above for more details. The eclipse will also be visible as a partial eclipse in other nearby regions indicated by the shadow above.

 

annular eclipse

The eclipse will start in Uganda (Africa) and pass through the Indian Ocean to finally move through south India to China. The best spot to view the eclipse will be at Maldives where the duration of the eclipse is expected to last about 11 minutes.

The total eclipse will begin at about 5:13 GMT and ends at 8:59 GMT – The greatest eclipse view is expected at 7:07 GMT. For the sidenote, Mauritius is at GMT+4, so just add 4 hours to the time above to get the time here.

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  1. January 15, 2010

    bhaskar

    this has a good animation

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  2. January 15, 2010

    Thierry

    Hi Kurt,
    I’ve got pictures of the solar eclipse just like last year despite the terrible weather here in Quatre Bornes! I will mail them to you soon. Thanks.

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    • January 15, 2010

      Kurt Avish

      Hi Thierry. Sure send them to me. I’ll put them on as soon as I return home today.

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      • January 15, 2010

        Thierry

        @Kurt Avish,
        Ok! Done! Check your mail.

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        • January 15, 2010

          Kurt Avish

          On which email you sent? Send it to islandcrisis@gmail.com or kurt@islandcrisis.net – My other domain based emails are not yet set up again as I just shifted server.

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  3. January 15, 2010

    Chandra Mickle Lee

    Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 http://ow.ly/WIsE

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  4. January 15, 2010

    Andrea Westmoreland

    RT @GroovyGrapevine: Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 http://www.islandcrisis.net/2010/01/solar-eclipse-january-2010/

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  5. January 15, 2010

    vpj

    @lahiru http://www.islandcrisis.net/2010/01/solar-eclipse-january-2010/

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