Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Total Eclipse

Good evening! Today was the total eclipse day. Could you see it? Regretfully, I coudn't see it. I wanted to see it so much!
I didn't know about the total eclipse, so I searched it well.

It was visible from a narrow corridor through northern Maldives, northern Pakistan and northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, northern Philippines, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
Totality was visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Gaya, Dinajpur, Siliguri, Tawang, Guwahati, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yochang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Goeges Dam. According to some experts, Taregana in Bihar, India was expected to be the "best" place to view the event.
A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of Southeast Asia (all of India and China) and north-eastern Oceania. (162words/8799words)

2 comments:

mangi madang said...

Hello Chihiro.

I didn't see it.
I stayed inside of the building.

I heard that eclipse can be seen somewhere once a year. I may have a
chance to see sometimes.

Toshi

Rick said...

Unfortunately, I couldn't see it either.