Nepal to witness partial solar eclipse on Friday_English_Xinhua:
"KATHMANDU, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nepal will see the first solar eclipse of the year on Friday, and if the weather does not play foul, the partial solar eclipse will be visible from all parts of the country, according to astronomical sources on Thursday.
The moon will start blocking sunlight at midday when it comes between the sun and the earth in a straight line. The moon's shadow will fall on the earth to partially occult the sun for more than three hours.
According to the B.P. Koirala Memorial Planetarium, Observatory and Science Museum Development Board, the eclipse will start from near Mahendranagar in western Nepal at 12:15 p.m. (0630 GMT), and end in the vicinity of Chandargadhi in eastern Nepal at 3:43 p.m. (0958 GMT). Maximum obscuration will be noticed from Chandragadhi and adjoining areas, where up to 65.5 percent of the Sun will appear dark at 2:14 p.m. (0829 GMT).
The last annular eclipse seen from Nepal was on Nov. 23, 1965, said Suresh Bhattarai of Nepal Astronomical Society."
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