Sydney: From boats bobbing on the Great Barrier Reef, to hot air balloons hovering over the rainforest, and the hilltops and beaches in between, tens of thousands of scientists, tourists and amateur astronomers watched as the sun, moon and Earth aligned and plunged northern Australia into darkness during a total solar eclipse on Wednesday. Stubborn clouds that many feared would ruin the view parted - somewhat - in north Queensland,...
08:36 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Astro enthusiasts will miss a chance to catch the year's last solar eclipse, which will occur on the intervening night of Diwali and the next day, as it will not be visible from the country. The last solar eclipse of the year will occur on the night of November 13, but it will not be visible from India, Director of Planetary Society of India, N Sri Raghunandan, said....
09:59 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Kanarraville: The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that dimmed the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. Eclipses of some type occur almost every year, but stargazers have not seen an annular - shaped like a ring - eclipse on US soil since 1994, and the...
08:38 AM, May 21, 2012
Tokyo: Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent. It will move across the Pacific and also be seen in parts of the western United States. In Japan, "eclipse tours" were arranged at...
07:18 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Astro-enthusiasts in the North-East states of the country are in for a celestial treat tomorrow as they will witness the first solar eclipse of this year. An annular solar eclipse will take place tomorrow which can be seen from the region covering China, most of Russia, South East Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii, Arctic regions and North America except the easternmost part, President of Planetary Society of India...
04:10 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Sky gazers in parts of the world are up for a celestial treat on May 21 when an annular solar eclipse takes place, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. However, in India it will only be visible in the northeastern states. An annual solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are exactly in line,...
10:34 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: The second partial solar eclipse of 2011 will happen on June 1. The eclipse will not cover India but can be seen from the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The eclipse begins at sunrise in Siberia and northern China at about 00:55:18 IST and the maximum eclipse will occur at 02:46:11 IST. Even though the eclipse is a midnight eclipse, it can be viewed from latitudes north...
07:53 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: The New Year begins with a partial solar eclipse that can be seen on Tuesday from the northern part of the country besides from Europe, the Arabian peninsula, North Africa and Western Asia. The partial solar eclipse will begin at 12:10:11 IST and end at 16:30:54 IST, R C Kapoor, retired Prof of Indian Astro Physics, said. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth...
09:20 AM, Jan 04, 2011
New Delhi: Of all the purges known to mankind, solar eclipses rank high in popular superstition as the perpetrators of all things evil. Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world, including in India, in 2011. The first solar eclipse, that will take place on January 4, will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and...
01:50 PM, Jan 03, 2011
New Delhi: The New Year begins with a partial solar eclipse that can be seen on Tuesday from the northern part of the country besides from Europe, the Arabian peninsula, North Africa and Western Asia. The partial solar eclipse will begin at 12:10:11 IST and end at 16:30:54 IST, R C Kapoor, retired Prof of Indian Astro Physics, said. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth...
10:49 AM, Jan 03, 2011
Pregnant women were advised not to see the eclipse directly ...
08:57 PM, Jan 16, 2010
The country got the opportunity to witness the longest solar eclipse of the millennium. ...
12:00 AM, Jan 16, 2010
Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu had one of the clearest views of the eclipse. ...
09:33 PM, Jan 15, 2010
The visibility was longest in Rameshwaram, Varkala and Mumbai. ...
04:27 PM, Jan 15, 2010
Astronomers said Maldives was the best place to view the phenomenon. ...
03:19 PM, Jan 15, 2010
Myths have formed about what you can and cannot do, during a solar eclipse. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 15, 2010
