Posted on: 21-07-09 08:48:00
Can we see in it Canada? It is supposed to be the longest.
Unfortunately not.. for that you'll have to go to India 
Check this link for further details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2009 " target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2009
Visibility
It will be visible from a narrow corridor through nothern Maldives, northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
Totality will be visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Dinajpur, Guwahati, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Gorges Dam. According to some experts, Taregana in Bihar is the "best" place to view the event.
A partial eclipse will be 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.
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Reiki Grand Master
Thanks to computer and internet, nothing's impossible now.
If you cant go to India, you view it online :
http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/solar-eclipse-online/
I am not sure if you are supposed to wear those special glasses to watch it online..
Hiren
Thx for the info. What is the UTC in relation to EST?
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Originally posted by KumarM
Thx for the info. What is the UTC in relation to EST?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
In casual use, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) can be considered equivalent to UTC or UT1 when fractions of a second are not important.
Google my friend.
Hiren
Next visible is the lunar eclipse of 21-Dec-2010
Let's pray that we get lil support from weather.
A lunar eclipse coming up on August 6. I guess its a tiny one.
Yesterday during the solar one, lot of schools in Bangalore started late in the morning as the eclipse ebding time was till 7. 30 am. Temples opened much later.
