Figure 3. displays the path of the July 22nd, 2009 (the eclipse in theSixty Symbols video).The area of total eclipse is displayed by the dark shadow traversing the globe. A Partial eclipse might be seen by observers in the lightly shadowed areas.
Figure 3. Path of July 22nd, 2009 Total Eclipse |
Totality was visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Gaya, Dinajpur, Siliguri, Guwahati, Tawang in India and Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo, Shanghai, Chapai Nawabganj as well as over the Three Gorges Dam in China. However, in Shanghai, the largest city in the eclipse's path, the view was obscured by heavy clouds.wiki:[5][6] According to NASA, the Japanese island Kitaio Jima was predicted to have the best viewing conditionswiki: [7][8] featuring both longer viewing time (being the closest point of land to the point of greatest eclipse) and lower cloud cover statistics than all of continental Asia.3
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