Solar Eclipse

, India (AFP) - – The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century plunged millions across Asia into
temporary darkness on Wednesday, triggering scenes of religious fervour, fear and excitement in India and
China.

Visibility

It was visible from a narrow corridor through northern Maldives, northern Pakistan and northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, northern Philippines, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands,Marshall Islands and Kiribati.

Totality was visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi,Patna, Gaya, 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.^[6][7] According to some experts, Taregana^[8][9] in Bihar, India was expected to be the "best" place to view the event.

A partial eclipse was 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.

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were really lucky to witness this kind of phenomena, whatever reason or sign it may have behind, still were lucky to saw it, but im not that luvky because i didnt saw it!..

lesson..: we must be aware in everything that is happening in our sorrounding but dont be too much "tsismosa/so"...

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