Eye on sky for celestial treat

Children patiently awaited their turn for a look at the half-bitten sun through the telescopes at the Nehru Planetarium lawn on Friday.

Children patiently awaited their turn for a look at the half-bitten sun through the telescopes at the Nehru Planetarium lawn on Friday. Most wore eclipse goggles to view the annular eclipse of the sun the longest in the millennium.

The Ring of Fire was visible in Kanyakumari here it was only partial, said Ishita,a Class IX student from St Marys School in Dwarka.

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line,and since the apparent size of the moon is smaller than that of the sun,the sun appears like a ring of fire surrounding the Moons outline.

In Delhi,the eclipse was partial and began at 11.53 am and ended at 3.11pm.

While the young minds took science in their stride,several temples in Delhi and the NCR remained closed following tradition,as an eclipse is thought of as inauspicious. In Faridabad,a wedding at the home of one S K Sudan,scheduled for January 15,was brought forward by a day because of the solar eclipse.

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