Partial Solar eclipse on Friday
NEW DELHI: Partial Solar eclipse occurred on Friday disappointed many sky gazers in India and around the world as they won’t be able to witness it.
According to a scientific organization the eclipse only seen in Antarctica.
The eclipse begins Friday at 1.23 pm (Indian time) and ends at around 2.53 pm. A partial solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon partially obscures the Sun as viewed from an Earth location.
Antarctica seen the phenomenon, where the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean meet.
“Such a remote and isolated path means that it may very well turn out to be the solar eclipse that nobody sees other then a few penguins and leopard seals,” said a statement issued by the Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE).
This eclipse is the third of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring Jan 4, June 1, and Nov 25.
