“Today’s eclipse, which was partial for many parts of India, was total in Indonesia and Malaysia regions”, said Dr Ratnashree, director of the Nehru Planetarium. And Bruce for some people on one of the country’s small islands it was total darkness. It happens when the moon passes directly between the sun and the Earth.
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The eclipse began at 6:19 pm EST (6:19 am where the eclipse was visible) and reached totality, with the moon completely blocking the sun, at 7:15 am local time.
“People bathe in Ganges in order to wash away the impurities that are generated 12 hours prior to the eclipse”.
Each year there is a solar eclipse, but a *total* solar eclipse is more rare.
The timelapse shows the view of the eclipse from one of Indonesia’s eastern islands.
The last total solar eclipse occurred on March 20, 2015, only visible from the Faroe Islands and Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Other parts of Southeast Asia witnessed substantial partial eclipses.
“A total solar eclipse gives us the opportunity to see very close to the solar limb”.
As seen from Earth, the moon is just broad enough to cover the solar face, creating a breath-taking silver halo in an indigo sky.
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The moon is obscuring part of the sun over flowers during a solar eclipse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016.
