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“Solar eclipse will be partially visible”

Hyderabad: The first solar eclipse of this year, which will be partially visible in the country, will occur on Monday, city-based Planetary Society’s founder and secretary Raghunandan Kumar said on Sunday.

It will be an annular solar eclipse in South Africa, Antarctica, south-east Asia and Australia and the different stages will begin at 10.26 a.m. IST and end at 4.31 p.m. The central phase will begin at 11.36 p.m. and end at 3.21 p.m., Mr. Kumar told reporters.

The eclipse will be at its maximum at 1.29 p.m. which is also termed as ‘Greatest Eclipse Phase’ and people can witness the sun as a bright outline around the moon’s disc like a ring, he said.

In Hyderabad, it will begin at 3.02 p.m. and end at 3.40 p.m., he said, adding: “It may not be a so noteworthy event in Hyderabad where the covering of the sun’s disc by the moon would be just 2.2 per cent. Port Blair would witness nearly 39.4 per cent of sun’s disc covered by the moon,” he said. – PTI

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