Partial eclipses were also visible over other parts of Asia and Australia.
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Beginning late on Tuesday (GMT), the Moon will pass directly in front of the Sun, fully eclipsing the solar disk. “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.
NASA had sent a team of scientists to Indonesia, where researchers documented the total solar eclipse for an experiment aimed at measuring a certain kind of light scattered by electrons in the lower corona.
Dan McGlaun of Indianapolis poses Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska, with special glasses created to view the total solar eclipse.
On an island in the Mentawai chain, off Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra, hundreds cheered, prayed and hugged one another as the moon blocked out the sun.
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The place to be for the best view of this event is somewhere in the islands of Indonesia, as the shadow sweeps across them before heading out over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. And most of North America will be able to catch a partial version of this “Great American Eclipse”. The last one occurred in 1979, and the next wont be until 2024!
“The sun totally disappeared”.
Cloudy skies in parts of Indonesia dampened the spectacle for some. A crowd of about 400 people, including students and families, gathered at a university sports field in Singapore to watch the eclipse, while groups of enthusiasts also converged on beaches and outside their high rise apartments to gaze upwards. “Wow!” Cox added. His excitement then ratcheted up even more as he witnessed the “diamond ring effect”, in which the sun-moon pair resembles a piece of enormous sky bling. On land the durations were mostly between 1 and 3 minutes.
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In the capital Jakarta, thousands of residents packed a planetarium at a downtown park where officials distributed about 4,000 filtered viewing glasses.
