Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009

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The solar eclipse that takes 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 northern India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, central China and the Pacific Ocean (Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. Totality will be visible in many cities such as Surat, Varanasi, Patna, Thimphu, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Shanghai. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of South East Asia and north-eastern Oceania.

This solar eclipse is the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the twenty-first century. Totality will last for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan.

1 Notable times and coordinates
2 Type of the eclipse
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[edit] Notable times and coordinates

Event	Time (UTC)
Beginning of the general eclipse	23:58:18 (Jul 21)
Beginning of the total eclipse	00:51:16
Beginning of the central eclipse	00:54:31
Greatest eclipse	02:35:21
End of the central eclipse	04:16:13
End of the total eclipse	04:19:26
End of the general eclipse	05:12:25

[edit] Type of the eclipse

Nature of the eclipses	Total
Gamma	0.0696
Magnitude	1.0799
Duration at greatest eclipse point	398 s (6 min 38 s) at 02:35:21 UTC, in the Pacific Ocean: 24°12′36″N, 144°06′24″E
Maximum width of band	258.4 km