solar eclipse in india

solar eclipse in india will witness a total solar eclipse on July 22, the last of the kind to be visible in the country for the next 105 years. The eclipse 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.

Eye Safety during Solar Eclipses to Human beings :

Eye Safety during Solar Eclipses is must as the solar rays that get the surface of the Earth ranges from the ultraviolet (UV) radiation at the wavelengths longer than 290 nm to radio waves in meter range. And the tissues in eye broadcast a considerable part of rays between 380 and 1400nm to the light-sensitive retina following eye.

Exposure of retina to deep observable light causes injure to its cone cells and light-sensitive rod. The only period that the sun can be analyzed securely with the nude eye is during the total eclipse, when the Moon totally covers the disk of sun.

Countries in the following area can see full eclipse:
India, China, Japan and the South Pacific.

A Total Solar Eclipse will be visible in India on July 22, 2009 from early morning 05:28 hrs to 07:40 hrs (Indian Standard Time). The total solar eclipse will last nearly four minutes — from 6.26 am to 6.30 am — in India and the sun will not be visible at all. In India, Total Lunar Eclipse will be visible in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Varanasi, West Bengal and Northeastern States. According to NASA, the solar eclipse on July 22, 2009 is a ‘Total Solar Eclipse’ and the Moon’s umbral shadow on Sun begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China and ends in the Pacific Ocean.

It is the longest total solar eclipse in the 21st century and will not surpass in duration until next 123 years.

After the solar eclipse on July 22, the next one will be visible in the Indian sub-continent only 105 years later, on June 3, 2114.

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