New Delhi: Come June 21, and the world will witness its second solar eclipse of the year. When it's a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon, however, in partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. This one is going to be an annular eclipse.
The Annular solar eclipse forms a ring of fire but is different from a total eclipse. It will be visible in parts of Africa including the Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan, India, and China.
From India, annular phase will be visible in the morning from some places within a narrow corridor of the northern part of the country (parts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttarakhand) and it will be seen as partial solar eclipse from the rest part of the country.
India Timings of Surya Grahan:
First location to see the partial eclipse begin - 21 Jun, 09:15:58 am
First location to see the full eclipse begin - 21 Jun, 10:17:45 am
Maximum Eclipse - 21 Jun, 12:10:04 am
Last location to see the full eclipse end - 21 Jun, 14:02:17 am
Last location to see the partial eclipse end - 21 Jun, 15:04:01 am
(as per timeanddate.com)
In India, the obscuration of the Sun by the Moon at the time of greatest phase of the annular eclipse will be nearly 98.6%. Obscuration of the Sun by the Moon at the time of greatest phase of partial eclipse will be around 94 percent in Delhi, 80 percent in Guwahati, 78 percent in Patna, 75 percent in Silchar, 66 percent in Kolkata, 62 percent in Mumbai, 37 percent in Bangalore, 34 percent in Chennai, 28 percent in Port Blair etc.
A solar eclipse occurs on a new moon day when the Moon comes in between the Earth and the Sun and when all the three objects are aligned. An annular solar eclipse will occur when the angular diameter of the Moon falls short of that of the Sun so that it cannot cover up the latter completely. As a result, a ring of the Sun’s disk remains visible around the Moon.
Check out the Table showing phases of the eclipse in various cities of the country:
Places | Partial Eclipse Begins (IST) |
Annular phase Begins (IST) |
Greatest Eclipse (IST) |
Magni- tude |
Max-imum. Obscu-ration |
Annular phase Ends (IST) |
Partial Eclipse Ends (IST) |
Dura-tion of Eclipse |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
h m | h m | h m | h m | h m | h m | |||
Agartala | 10 56.0 | - - | 12 45.1 | 0.771 | 71.1% | - - | 14 23.6 | 3 28 |
Ahmedabad | 10 04.0 | - - | 11 42.2 | 0.823 | 77.4% | - - | 13 32.2 | 3 28 |
Aizawl | 11 00.9 | - - | 12 49.8 | 0.770 | 70.9% | - - | 14 26.7 | 3 26 |
Allahabad | 10 27.6 | - - | 12 13.6 | 0.831 | 78.4% | - - | 14 00.6 | 3 33 |
Amritsar | 10 20.0 | - - | 11 57.7 | 0.935 | 91.5% | - - | 13 41.6 | 3 22 |
Bangalore | 10 13.2 | - - | 11 47.6 | 0.473 | 36.5% | - - | 13 31.5 | 3 18 |
Bhagalpur | 10 42.4 | - - | 12 30.9 | 0.811 | 76.0% | - - | 14 13.8 | 3 31 |
Bhopal | 10 14.7 | - - | 11 57.4 | 0.789 | 73.2% | - - | 13 47.0 | 3 32 |
Bhubaneswar | 10 38.3 | - - | 12 26.1 | 0.655 | 57.0% | - - | 14 09.7 | 3 31 |
*Chamoli | 10 27.1 | 12 08.7 | 12 09.1 | 0.997 | 98.6% | 12 09.4 | 13 53.7 | 3 27 |
Chandigarh | 10 24.4 | - - | 12 04.5 | 0.965 | 95.4% | - - | 13 48.7 | 3 24 |
Chennai | 10 22.0 | - - | 11 58.5 | 0.453 | 34.4% | - - | 13 40.8 | 3 19 |
Cochin | 10 11.0 | - - | 11 38.9 | 0.396 | 28.4% | - - | 13 17.7 | 3 07 |
Cooch Behar | 10 50.5 | - - | 12 39.0 | 0.846 | 80.3% | - - | 14 19.2 | 3 29 |
Darjeeling | 10 47.2 | - - | 12 35.2 | 0.868 | 83.1% | - - | 14 16.3 | 3 29 |
*Dehradun | 10 24.2 | 12 05.0 | 12 05.3 | 0.996 | 98.6% | 12 05.6 | 13 50.4 | 3 26 |
Delhi | 10 20.1 | - - | 12 01.6 | 0.952 | 93.7% | - - | 13 48.4 | 3 28 |
Dibrugarh | 11 07.9 | - - | 12 54.7 | 0.896 | 86.5% | - - | 14 29.1 | 3 21 |
Dwarka | 9 56.6 | - - | 11 31.1 | 0.840 | 79.5% | - - | 13 20.1 | 3 24 |
Gandhinagar | 10 04.3 | - - | 11 42.6 | 0.827 | 77.9% | - - | 13 32.6 | 3 28 |
Gangtok | 10 48.3 | - - | 12 36.2 | 0.877 | 84.2% | - - | 14 17.0 | 3 28 |
Gaya | 10 36.2 | - - | 12 24.2 | 0.799 | 74.4% | - - | 14 08.9 | 3 33 |
Guwahati | 10 57.0 | - - | 12 45.5 | 0.842 | 79.8% | - - | 14 23.6 | 3 27 |
Haridwar | 10 24.9 | - - | 12 06.0 | 0.990 | 98.6% | - - | 13 50.8 | 3 26 |
Hazaribagh | 10 37.2 | - - | 12 25.4 | 0.774 | 71.4% | - - | 14 09.9 | 3 33 |
Hyderabad | 10 15.0 | - - | 11 55.8 | 0.602 | 50.8% | - - | 13 43.9 | 3 29 |
Imphal | 11 04.6 | - - | 12 53.0 | 0.804 | 75.0% | - - | 14 28.7 | 3 24 |
Itanagar | 11 03.5 | - - | 12 51.1 | 0.879 | 84.4% | - - | 14 26.9 | 3 23 |
Jaipur | 10 14.8 | - - | 11 55.8 | 0.908 | 88.1% | - - | 13 44.2 | 3 29 |
Jalandhar | 10 22.7 | - - | 12 01.0 | 0.931 | 91.0% | - - | 13 44.5 | 3 22 |
Jammu | 10 21.7 | - - | 11 58.5 | 0.904 | 87.5% | - - | 13 41.2 | 3 20 |
*Joshimath | 10 27.8 | 12 09.5 | 12 09.8 | 0.997 | 98.6% | 12 10.2 | 13 54.3 | 3 27 |
Kannur | 10 06.7 | - - | 11 37.5 | 0.461 | 35.2% | - - | 13 20.4 | 3 14 |
Kanyakumari | 10 17.7 | - - | 11 41.9 | 0.329 | 21.9% | - - | 13 15.3 | 2 58 |
Kavalur | 10 19.2 | - - | 11 55.1 | 0.458 | 34.9% | - - | 13 37.9 | 3 19 |
Kavaratti | 10 00.3 | - - | 11 28.0 | 0.460 | 35.1% | - - | 13 09.7 | 3 09 |
‘ - - ‘ indicates annular phase of eclipse is not visible corresponding to the places where only partial eclipse occurs
‘*’ Places where annular phase of eclipse occurs
Places | Partial Eclipse Begins (IST) |
Annular phase Begins (IST) |
Greatest Eclipse (IST) |
Magni- tude |
Max-imum. Obscu-ration |
Annular phase Ends (IST) |
Partial Eclipse Ends (IST) |
Dura-tion of Eclipse |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
h m | h m | h m | h m | h m | h m | |||
Kohima | 11 05.3 | - - | 12 53.3 | 0.835 | 78.9% | - - | 14 28.8 | 3 23 |
Kolkata | 10 46.4 | - - | 12 35.5 | 0.725 | 65.5% | - - | 14 17.0 | 3 31 |
Kozikode | 10 08.4 | - - | 11 38.5 | 0.439 | 32.9% | - - | 13 20.2 | 3 12 |
*Kurukshetra | 10 21.3 | 12 01.4 | 12 01.8 | 0.997 | 98.6% | 12 02.1 | 13 47.4 | 3 26 |
Lucknow | 10 26.8 | - - | 12 11.8 | 0.879 | 84.4% | - - | 13 58.5 | 3 32 |
Madurai | 10 17.6 | - - | 11 46.5 | 0.377 | 26.6% | - - | 13 24.3 | 3 07 |
Mangalore | 10 04.9 | - - | 11 37.1 | 0.498 | 39.1% | - - | 13 21.8 | 3 17 |
Mount Abu | 10 05.9 | - - | 11 44.3 | 0.868 | 83.0% | - - | 13 33.8 | 3 28 |
Mumbai | 10 00.9 | - - | 11 37.5 | 0.697 | 62.1% | - - | 13 27.5 | 3 27 |
Mysore | 10 10.7 | - - | 11 43.4 | 0.461 | 35.2% | - - | 13 26.5 | 3 16 |
Nagpur | 10 17.9 | - - | 12 01.6 | 0.711 | 63.7% | - - | 13 50.7 | 3 33 |
Nasik | 10 03.8 | - - | 11 42.0 | 0.720 | 64.8% | - - | 13 32.3 | 3 29 |
Panaji | 10 03.3 | - - | 11 38.8 | 0.589 | 49.3% | - - | 13 26.9 | 3 24 |
Patna | 10 37.1 | - - | 12 24.9 | 0.825 | 77.7% | - - | 14 09.3 | 3 32 |
Pondicherry | 10 21.7 | - - | 11 56.0 | 0.423 | 31.2% | - - | 13 36.7 | 3 15 |
Port Blair | 11 15.6 | - - | 12 53.4 | 0.393 | 28.1% | - - | 14 18.8 | 3 03 |
Pune | 10 03.0 | - - | 11 40.5 | 0.675 | 59.5% | - - | 13 30.3 | 3 27 |
Puri | 10 38.3 | - - | 12 26.0 | 0.641 | 55.4% | - - | 14 09.3 | 3 31 |
Raipur | 10 25.1 | - - | 12 10.9 | 0.699 | 62.3% | - - | 13 58.4 | 3 33 |
Rajkot | 9 59.6 | - - | 11 35.8 | 0.819 | 77.0% | - - | 13 25.5 | 3 26 |
Ranchi | 10 36.8 | - - | 12 25.0 | 0.753 | 68.8% | - - | 14 09.6 | 3 33 |
Sambalpur | 10 32.2 | - - | 12 19.6 | 0.697 | 62.1% | - - | 14 05.3 | 3 33 |
Shillong | 10 58.0 | - - | 12 46.6 | 0.826 | 77.8% | - - | 14 24.5 | 3 27 |
Shimla | 10 23.5 | - - | 12 03.4 | 0.967 | 95.6% | - - | 13 47.9 | 3 24 |
Silchar | 11 01.0 | - - | 12 49.7 | 0.803 | 74.9% | - - | 14 26.6 | 3 26 |
Siliguri | 10 47.3 | - - | 12 35.5 | 0.856 | 81.6% | - - | 14 16.7 | 3 29 |
*Sirsa | 10 16.9 | 11 55.9 | 11 56.1 | 0.996 | 98.6% | 11 56.6 | 13 42.3 | 3 25 |
Srinagar | 10 24.2 | - - | 11 59.7 | 0.861 | 82.2% | - - | 13 40.6 | 3 16 |
*Suratgarh | 10 14.5 | 11 52.5 | 11 52.9 | 0.998 | 98.6% | 11 53.3 | 13 39.2 | 3 25 |
Thiruvanantapuram | 10 15.1 | - - | 11 40.0 | 0.346 | 23.5% | - - | 13 14.9 | 3 00 |
Udaipur | 10 07.8 | - - | 11 47.2 | 0.858 | 81.8% | - - | 13 36.8 | 3 29 |
Ujjain | 10 10.9 | - - | 11 52.1 | 0.798 | 74.3% | - - | 13 42.2 | 3 31 |
Vadodara | 10 04.6 | - - | 11 43.2 | 0.795 | 73.9% | - - | 13 33.5 | 3 29 |
Varanasi | 10 31.0 | - - | 12 17.8 | 0.821 | 77.2% | - - | 14 04.0 | 3 33 |
‘ - - ‘ indicates annular phase of eclipse is not visible corresponding to the places where only partial eclipse occurs ‘*’ Places where annular phase of eclipse occurs
Places | Annular phase Begins (IST) |
Greatest Eclipse (IST) |
Max-imum. Obscu-ration |
Annular phase Ends (IST) |
Duration of Annularity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
h m | h m | h m | m s | ||
Chamoli | 12 08.7 | 12 09.1 | 98.6% | 12 09.4 | 0 38 |
Dehradun | 12 05.0 | 12 05.3 | 98.6% | 12 05.6 | 0 31 |
Joshimath | 12 09.5 | 12 09.8 | 98.6% | 12 10.2 | 0 39 |
Kurukshetra | 12 01.4 | 12 01.8 | 98.6% | 12 02.1 | 0 39 |
Sirsa | 11 55.9 | 11 56.1 | 98.6% | 11 56.4 | 0 36 |
Suratgarh | 11 52.5 | 11 52.9 | 98.6% | 11 53.3 | 0 45 |
Take Note: The eclipsed Sun should not be viewed with the naked eye, even for a very short time. It will cause permanent damage of the eyes leading to blindness even when the moon covers most portion of the Sun. The safe technique to observe the solar eclipse is either by using a proper filter like aluminized Mylar, black polymer, welding glass of shade number 14 or by making a projection of Sun’s image on a whiteboard by telescope.