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Solar eclipse in January
The Jakarta Post | Thu, 12/04/2008 9:31 PM | National
People in the Banten regency of Serang and Lampung will be lucky enough to witness an annular solar eclipse on Jan. 26, 2009, according to a forecast by the Jakarta observatory."The annular solar eclipse will not be visible from Jakarta, but will be in Serang and Lampung," agency member Cecep Nurwendana said Thursday. Nurwendana was attending a meeting to establish the date for the Islamic Day of Sacrifice.
During an annular solar eclipse, the sun appears as a very bright ring around the outline of the moon.
Up to five solar eclipses take place each year on earth.
The first solar eclipse for 2009 will be partially visible in the southern third of Africa, Madagascar, Australia (except Tasmania), southeast India and Southeast Asia. The second, a total eclipse, will occur on July 22 and will be seen from India, Nepal, China and the central Pacific Ocean.
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Klipsi (not verified) — Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:36pm
the eclipse January 26 is visible as deep partial eclipse in Jakarta, almost ring.
the ring zone is just to the northwest of Jakarta.
here is a map from NASA :
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2009-Fig02.pdf
and here is an animation I made that shows the eclipse in Jakarta :
http://www.klipsi.ch/eclipse2009.gif
more info here :
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~jander/ase2009/index.htm
warning: do not look at the sun directly or you may damage your eyes. Or, use specially designed solar filter to look at the sun. if you have no solar filter, look at a projection.
NASA info : http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety.html
PLEASE can someone tell me if Indonesia TV or media will do a LIVE stream webcast on internet of the eclipse ? or some astronomical society ? please forward info , URL , to klipsi@bluewin.ch . thanks.