TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ON SUNDAY / TO
BE VISIBLE IN INDIA
A Total Eclipse of
the Moon will occur in the early hours of Sunday the 9th
November 2003 (from 0502 hrs. to 0835.hrs. I.S.T). The eclipse
will be visible from Asia except the eastern parts, Africa, Europe
including British Isles, Atlantic Ocean, part of Antarctica, Greenland,
the Americas, Arctic region and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
The beginning of
the partial phase of the eclipse will be visible all over India.
However, the totality will not be visible over major portion of
the country, except Northern, North-Western and Western parts.
Some of the important places where the eclipse will occur from
beginning to end are – Amritsar, Chandigarh, Dehra-Doon, Delhi,
Hardwar, Shimla, Srinagar, Ujjain, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur,
Mt. Abu and Udaipur.
