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The partial phase of the eclipse will begin at 9.16 am. The annular phase will start at 10.19 am and end at 2.02 pm. The partial phase of the eclipse will end at 3.04 pm.
New Delhi: An annular solar eclipse, wherein the Sun appears like a ring of fire, will be visible in parts of the country on Sunday, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said.
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Obscuration of the Sun by the Moon at the time of greatest phase of the partial eclipse will be around 94 per cent in Delhi, 80 per cent in Guwahati, 78 per cent in Patna, 75 per cent in Silchar, 66 per cent in Kolkata, 62 per cent in Mumbai, 37 per cent in Bangalore, 34 per cent in Chennai, 28 per cent in Port Blair.
The partial phase of the eclipse will begin at 9.16 am. The annular phase will start at 10.19 am and end at 2.02 pm. The partial phase of the eclipse will end at 3.04 pm.
“Close to noon, for a small belt in north India the eclipse will turn into a beautiful annular (ring-shaped) one since the Moon is not close enough to cover the Sun completely,” the Astronomical Society of India said.
“Places like Delhi will be dark for 5-7 minutes from 11 to 11.30 pm,” said Arvind Paranjpye, the Director of the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai.
| Places | Partial Eclipse Begins (IST) | Annular phase Begins (IST) | Greatest Eclipse (IST) | Magni- tude | Maximum. Obscuration | Annular phase Ends (IST) | Partial Eclipse Ends (IST) | Duration 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 |
The annular phase will be visible in the morning from some places within a narrow corridor of northern India — parts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttarakhand. A few prominent places within this narrow annularity path are Dehradun, Kurukshetra, Chamoli, Joshimath, Sirsa, Suratgarh.
From the rest of the country, it will be visible as partial solar eclipse.
| 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 |
| 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 |
Live Updates
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#SolarEclipse2020 as seen in Kathmandu of Nepal.
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Delhi: #SolarEclipse2020 as seen in the cloudy skies of the national capital. pic.twitter.com/Y29PNlnpWW
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Haryana: #SolarEclipse2020 as seen in the skies of Kurukshetra. pic.twitter.com/LCpg8ltvJk
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Solar Eclipse 2020 Live: Photos from UAE
United Arab Emirates: #SolarEclipse2020 as seen in the skies of Dubai.
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Maharashtra: #SolarEclipse2020 seen in the skies of Mumbai.
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Jammu & Kashmir: Jammu witnesses #SolarEclipse2020
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Jammu & Kashmir: Jammu witnesses #SolarEclipse2020
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Delhi: #SolarEclipse2020 as seen in the skies of the national capital today.
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Lucknow: Temples in the city to remain closed till 4 pm today in the light of #SolarEclipse2020.
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