HYDERABAD, Dec 3: The fourth and last Eclipse of the Year 2021 will occur on Saturday.
This is eclipse of Sun a ‘Total Solar Eclipse’ and not be visible in India, Planetary Society of India (PSI) Director N Sri Raghnunandan Kumar said in a release on Friday.
He said the eclipse is visible in the region covering Antarctica, extreme South Africa, extreme South Australia, the South Atlantic Ocean and the South Indian Ocean.
Explaining about Solar eclipse, Mr Kumar said, it occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth such a way that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth.
Timings across the world as per Indian Standard Time (IST), the eclipse occurs from 10.59 a.m. to 3.07 p.m tomorrow. Wherein Greatest Phase of Eclipse when the maximum part of Sun Disk is covered by Moon will occur at 1:04 p.m.
Totality Phase:
As this is Total Solar Eclipse, observers in Antarctica will witness entire disk of Sun obscured for total duration of 1 Minute 57 Sec’s at time of Totality i.e. at 1:04 p.m. Whereas across the world people in few places of Southern hemisphere on Earth will witness this eclipse partially, either at beginning or ending of the eclipse.
Why not visible in India?
Timings and visibility of Eclipse, Percentage of Sun obscured by Moon are dependent on the location of observer from Path of the Eclipse i.e. Shadow of Moon falling on Earth.
On December 4, the PSI Director said, the path of the moon’s umbral shadow begins it journey in the Southern Ocean about 500 km southeast of the Falkland Islands, crosses the Antarctic continent, South Australia and ends at sunset in the Southern Ocean.
As India is nowhere near or in the shadow path of this eclipse, it’s not visible here, he added. (UNI)
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