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'Blazing ring' eclipse races across Africa, Asia Thiruvananthapuram, India (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 
A solar eclipse that reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk plunged millions of people in Africa and Asia into an eerie semi-darkness on Friday.
The spectacle, visible in a roughly 300-kilometre (185-mile) band running 12,900 kilometres (8,062 miles) across the globe, set a record for the longest annular eclipse that will remain unbeaten for more than a thousand years. ... read moreISRO Launches Rockets To Study Eclipse 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2010The millennium's longest solar eclipse gave a unique chance to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists and astronomy lovers to study the event on Friday, with the space agency launching rockets and celestial gazers aiming telescopes at the sky to watch the moon's shadow covering the sun. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, launched a series of Rohini Sound ... more
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ISRO To Analyse Data Of Solar Eclipse
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 14, 2010 The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here, an unit of ISRO, has made elaborate arrangements including launch of sounding rockets to gather data for a comprehensive analysis of the annular solar eclipse, which will occur on January 15. The atmospheric-ionospheric parameters to be conducted in India would be one of the most comprehensive scientific campaigns ever attempted during a solar ... more Images Of Solar Eclipse As Seen By Hinode Satellite 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2009The Hinode satellite observing our sun captured images of the moon traversing the face of the sun during a solar eclipse this week. On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow began in India and crossed through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After ... more Solar eclipse inspires awe -- and disappointment 
Shanghai (AFP) July 22, 2009Peering up through black protective glasses at an overcast sky, Glenn Evans let out an excited cry as the barely visible sun began to disappear completely behind the moon. "You can see it. It's already started!" Evans, a Shanghai-based cosmetics executive, called out to other eclipse-watchers. Evans was one of hordes of Shanghai residents and tourists who poured into the Chinese city's ... more China Aims To Record 40-Minute Image Of Solar Eclipse Corona 
Nanjing, China (XNA) Jul 22, 2009Chinese scientists are striving to capture a 40-minute sequence of images of the corona of a solar eclipse along its path across China on Wednesday in a bid to understand the sun's outer atmosphere. "We have set up 17 observer stations along the central line of the solar eclipse in China to capture the corona images," said Ji Haisheng, an astronomer with the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... more |
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Solar eclipse sparks tourism fever in China
Shanghai (AFP) July 16, 2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, visible next Wednesday, has sparked tourist fever in eastern China, which according to experts is the best place to view the event. The total eclipse, expected to last about six minutes, will pass from southwest China across the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing to Shanghai and Hangzhou in eastern Zhejiang province, according to NASA's eclip ... more China Best Place To Observe Longest Solar Eclipse In 2000 Years 
Beijing (XNA) May 20, 2009China is the best place in the world to observe the longest total solar eclipse in 2,000 years that will fall on July 22 and last for more than two hours, Chinese scientists said here Tuesday. The eclipse would begin at about 8 a.m. on July, 22 (Beijing Time), and the length of the total eclipse of the sun will run for up to six minutes, said Li Ding, director of the Bureau of Basic Scienc ... more Ring of fire: Solar eclipse to traverse Indian Ocean 
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2009A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface. In an annular eclipse, a tiny shift in distance that results from celestial ... more |
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