Solar Eclipse 2009 at Kurukshetra

Camera Info: Nikon D80, Exposure: 1/250, Aperture: f/8, Focal Length: 18 mm, ISO Speed: 320

This shot was taken on Last Solar Eclipse (total) on 1st Aug 2008, People are taking holy bath during solar eclipse in "Brahm Sarovar" at Kurukshetra, Haryana. Its 100 KM from Chandigarh, 150 km from New Delhi.

This year in Jul 2009 around 1.5 Million people are expected to take holy bath during this eclipse.

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The solar eclipse that will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.080 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northernIndia, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, centralChina and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. Totality will be visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi,Dinajpur, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hefei, Hangzhou and Shanghai, as well as over theThree Gorges Dam. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon'spenumbra, including most of South East Asia (all of China and India) and north-easternOceania. The eclipse is part of series 136 in the Saros cycle, similar to record setting Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991.

This is second in the series of three eclipses in a month. There was a lunar eclipse on July 7 and now a solar eclipse on July 22 and then a lunar eclipse on August 6.

This solar eclipse is the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the twenty-first century, and will not be surpassed in duration until June 13, 2132. Totality will last for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTCabout 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. The North Iwo Jima island is the landmass with totality time closest to maximum.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) affirmed after its two decades of Research that Taregana, a place 25 km from Patna in India, is the best location on earth to watch the Total Clear Solar Eclipse on July 22, 2009.

	Solar eclipses
Previous eclipse Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009 (annular)	Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 (total)	Next eclipse Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 (annular)
Previous total eclipse Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008		Next total eclipse Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010

(Source :wikipedia)