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Asia Solar Eclipse - July 22


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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District

Tomorrow morning (0100 UT) at Sunrise in Central India this centurys longest Eclipse will occur. Lasting at just over 6 minutes and 30 seconds the Moons shadow will cast totality from the Gulf of Khambat passing through China across the Three Gorges Dam, over Shanghai before exiting out over the Pacific. Partial Eclipses of the Sun will be seen in a region from Kamchatka to Borneo.

This will be webcasted across various Eclipse Chaser Websites and it will be well worth staying up to watch as no other Eclipse will be like this one for another Hundred or so years time.

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  • Location: Tiree
  • Location: Tiree

suprised thier aint more on this

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article6721965.ece

The longest total solar eclipse of this century takes place today, reaching a maximum 6min 39sec duration and following a track about 15,150km (9,410 miles) long, around half the globe, beginning in western India, crossing Bangladesh, central China and ending in the South Pacific. Possibly more people may see it than any previous eclipse in recorded history, although monsoon clouds and storms may blot out the view in many places.

Apart from being astonishing sights, solar eclipses also have led to discoveries about the sun, especially its outer atmosphere, the corona, which is normally hidden.

But one of the most remarkable studies was made on an eclipse 90 years ago to test Einstein’s theory of relativity. The British astronomer Arthur Eddington went to the island of Principe, off the west coast of Africa, to photograph the stars revealed near the sun during an eclipse. According to relativity, as the beams of starlight passed near the sun they would be slightly deflected by its gravitational field. The day of the eclipse on May 28, 1919, began with a thunderstorm, and heavy clouds covered the sky. But by the time of the eclipse in the afternoon, the clouds began to part, although they still blotted out much of the sight. Only with seconds of the eclipse remaining did the sky clear enough for Eddington to take good photographs. They proved the theory of relativity correct and made Einstein world-famous.

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