Updated at: 1745 PST, Wednesday, January 21, 2009
KARACHI: Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) has announced that an Annular Solar Eclipse (Ring like) will occur on January 26, 2009.
SUPARCO officials said on Wednesday that this type of eclipse occurs when apparent size of lunar disk becomes smaller than the apparent solar disk and lunar disk cannot cover whole of the sun.
Annular Eclipse will be visible mostly over Indian Ocean and part of Western Indonesia. However, partial eclipse will be visible from South Africa, Madagascar, South India, South-East Asia and Australia.
This eclipse (annular or partial) will not be visible from Pakistan.
The partial eclipse will begin at 9:57hrs, while total eclipse begins at 11:02hrs. The greatest eclipse would begin at 12:59hrs. The total eclipse ends at 14:55hrs and partial eclipse ends at16:01hrs.
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