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.
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.
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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bhaskar
this has a good animation
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.
Kurt Avish
Hi Thierry. Sure send them to me. I’ll put them on as soon as I return home today.
Thierry
@Kurt Avish,
Ok! Done! Check your mail.
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.
Chandra Mickle Lee
Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 http://ow.ly/WIsE
Andrea Westmoreland
RT @GroovyGrapevine: Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 http://www.islandcrisis.net/2010/01/solar-eclipse-january-2010/
vpj
@lahiru http://www.islandcrisis.net/2010/01/solar-eclipse-january-2010/