UPDATE: Kosmandu will be unable to be in Gaighat during the Eclipse as their members are dispersed in many places now. There are still some school going past-members who live in Gaighat without equipments. If you plan to visit there bring your own equipments and Solar Filters. Do not ever look at the sun wihout the use of proper solar filters. The authors of this code do not accept any liability for any injury that may arise. Contact Nepal Astronomical Society to arrange something http://astronomy-nepal.blogspot.com/ email at chikursharma at gmail.com. Thank you!

If you are somewhere in Eastern Nepal in the morning of 22 July the sky will turn black, and stars will be visible on the daytime!  

On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.

 Begin planning for the eclipse NOW! Also, Nepal is going to witness total eclipse after many years so it is going to be an spectacle.However, the capital and western parts will only see partial eclipse. Visit one of the hill stations in the east or any other city in terai, like Gaighat or Biratnagar 

 

VISIT GAIGHAT IN 2009 TO SEE THE TOTALITY: TOTAL ECLIPSE VISIBLE FROM EASTERN PARTS OF NEPAL.

About Gaighat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaighat

Wikipedia update on the Eclipse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_2009_July_22

Latitude:26o47'31" N Longitude:86o41'53" E

Type: TOTAL 

Greatest Eclipse ( Time of greatest Eclipse, the instant when the axis of the Moon's shadow passes closest to Earth's center): 02:35 UT [08:20am July 22 Nepal Standard Time] 

Time when the maximum part of the sun is obscured by the Moon as seen from Nepal: 6:42 am [First Contact: 5:44am Last Contact: 7:47am]

Greatest Eclipse Latitude: 34.1S Longitude: 70.3E

Saros series of eclipse (Each eclipse in a Saros is separated by an interval of 18 years 11.3 days): 131

Eclipse Magnitude ( the fraction of the Sun's diameter obscured by the Moon.): 0.928

Sun altitude at greatest eclipse : 73

Path Width (Width of the path of totality or annularity at greatest eclipse): 280 kilometers

Central duration at greatest eclipse: 07m54s


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Old website page for the eclipse at http://www.geocities.com/kosmandu/2009_eclipse_in_nepal.htm

NASA Homepage for the eclipse at http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html