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http://democratic-voice.blogspot.com – Friday, the first of August 2008 will be a day of total solar eclipse. It will be visible totally in parts of Russia, Mongolia and China. The solar eclipse will be partial in parts of North America, Europe and Asia including India. In India, The eclipse will begin at 1.34 p.m when the shadow of the moon will first touch the earth and will end at 6.08 p.m. when the moon's shadow leaves the earth at sunset near a point in the Bay of Bengal close to Andaman Nicobar Islands. A solar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon that occurs when the Earth's moon passes between the sun and the earth in such a way that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured from view from the earth. This happens only during a new moon day ( Amavasya in Indian languages), when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. There can be between 2 and 5 solar eclipses each year on Earth, with upto 2 of them being total eclipses. Total solar eclipses are however rare at any location because during each eclipse totality exists only along a narrow corridor in the relatively tiny area of the Moon's umbra. Read »