An Annular eclipse of the Sun will occur on May 21, 2012 The ending of the partial phase of the eclipse will be visible for a very short duration from the northeast India after the sunrise.
Considering the Earth as a whole the partial phase of the eclipse will begin at 2 h26 m IST. The annular phase will begin at 3 h 39 m IST. The annular phase will end at 7h 7m IST. The partial phase will end at 8h 19m IST.
The annular eclipse of the Sun is visible within a narrow corridor that traverses Earth‘s northern Hemisphere. The annular path of the Moon‘s shadow begins in eastern Asia at the Chinese coast, passes through south of Japan, then crosses the North Pacific Ocean where it ends in the western United States.
The Moon‘s penumbral shadow produces a partial eclipse visible from a much larger region covering East Asia, North Pacific Ocean, North America and Greenland. The instant of greatest eclipse occurs at 5 h 23 m IST when the eclipse magnitude reaches 0.945 with duration of annularity 5 m 42 s in a region of North Pacific Ocean.
In Imphal eclipse ends at 4.48 am.
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