Solar eclipse 2009 is the longest total eclipse in the 21st century, lasted for more than six and a half minutes at its peak, and blacked out the world’s most populous countries as it passed directly over China and India. Medical, scientific, and government authorities have issued warnings against looking at the eclipse with unprotected eyes. Have you seen the solar eclipse today? What do you think of it?
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solar eclipse was also observed in many part of gujarat like baroda,people of surat had disappointed since they didnt get oppertunity to see it .now this eclipse will be seen back after 123years on 21st june.
I was working in office and didn't see the solar eclipse, so I feel it a pity. We can only see total solar eclipse once in our life. Do you feel it a pity if you didn't see the solar eclipse?
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I viewed it.Wow! Very happy to watch that moment. It is really sad not to see it. But you can view images or videos. I recorded that moment in my mobile.
Looking into sun with your naked eye is always dangerous. During eclipse its brightness is less, but it doesn't mean that it is less dangerous. Normally we cannot look into sun for more than a few seconds without squinting the eyes. But during the eclipse people watch it with their wide opened eyes. So the radiation coming from the sun will cause damage to your retina.
The solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, is the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at most 6 minutes, 39 seconds. It has caused tourist interest in eastern China, Nepal and India. The eclipse is part of saros series 136, like the record-setting solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. The next event from this series will be on August 2, 2027.[ The exceptional duration is a result of the moon being near perigee, with the apparent diameter of the moon 8% larger than the sun (magnitude 1.080) and the Earth being near aphelion where the sun appears slightly smaller. This will be the second in the series of three eclipses in a month, with the lunar eclipse on July 7 and the lunar eclipse on August 6. Visibilty It will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern Maldives, northern Pakistan and northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. Totality will be visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Dinajpur, Siliguri, Tawang, Guwahati, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Gorges Dam. According to some experts, Taregana in Bihar is the "best" place to view the event. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of Southeast Asia (all of India and China) and north-eastern Oceania. Duration This solar eclipse will be the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the 21st century, and will not be surpassed in duration until June 13, 2132. Totality will last for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. The uninhabited North Iwo Jima island is the landmass with totality time closest to maximum, while the closest inhabited point is Akusekijima, where the eclipse will last 6 minutes and 26 seconds.
Oh the much awaited total solar eclipse wasn't very satisfying for me. It was on the early morning and so I couldn't go to any planetarium to watch it. Though... I watched it in TV. Pretty interesting
I've seen a solar eclipse once in my life, I put on a Welder's Mask to see it (cause it has the highest UV protection) and it was something interesting.