Partial solar eclipse to greet India early Wednesday morning

partial solar eclipse will be seen in India on Wednesday morning with the north-eastern parts of the country expected to see a large fraction of the disc of the Sun, eclipsed by the Moon.

The total solar eclipse, where the sun will be 100% obscured, will only be visible from parts of Indonesia including Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, and from locations in the Pacific Ocean.

Observers in north and east Australia, in South Asia, and in East Asia will be able to see a partial eclipse.

The total eclipse will begin at 04:49 AM (IST) and its maximum point will take place at 06:30 AM on March 9, 2016 before ending at 10.05 AM.

The instant of greatest eclipse occurs at 7:27 AM when the eclipse magnitude reaches 1.044 with duration of totality 4 minutes and 14 seconds in a region of Pacific Ocean.

In Delhi, people can observe the celestial phenomenon at 6:40 AM lasting for about 4 minutes.

“This is the first solar eclipse of the year and will be the only one visible until year December 26 of 2019 from India,” said N Raghunandan from Planetary Society of India, Hyderabad.