There will be a Solar Eclipse today, July 22, 2009.
It will be the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at greatest eclipse 6 minutes, 58 seconds.
It will be visible from a narrow corridor through nothern Maldives, 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, 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, Tareganain Bihar is the “best” place to view the event. – wikipedia
Here in the Philippines, only a partial Solar Eclipse will be seen. It will be seen from Metro Manila, Calayan Island, the cities of Laoag, Tuguegarao, Baguio, Angeles, Puerto Princesa, Lucena, Naga and General Santos, and the provinces of Iloilo, Cebu, Zamboanga, Sulu and Davao.
It will start in exactly 8:33:01 a.m. and will achieve maximum visibility at 9:43 a.m. It will end at 11:01:51 a.m.
