On Tuesday, July 2, Total Solar Eclipse or Surya Grahan 2019 will be observed. The solar eclipse is likely to last for four minutes and 33 seconds. This is the only solar eclipse which will be taking place during this year.
The solar eclipse falling on July 2 is likely to last longer than two minutes and 40 seconds which happened in August 2017. As per a report, the solar eclipse will be going through 6,000-mile paths which are however only a narrow zone of the Pacific Ocean and South America comes in the path of the totality.
A report says that the solar eclipse will cast dark shadows over some parts of Chile and Argentina and remote areas in South Pacific. A partial eclipse will also be visible in the neighboring countries in South America.
According to a report, most of the eclipse will be happening over the Pacific with the partial eclipse starting at 12:55 pm EDT and 10:25 pm Indian Standard Time.
The solar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon and the earth are all in a straight line in such a way that the moon blocks the sun’s rays from reaching the earth.
The majority of this solar eclipse’s path will be falling over the South Pacific Ocean, starting at sunrise local time about 2,175 miles (or 4,000 km) east-northeast of Wellington, New Zealand, as per a report.
For 161 minutes the solar eclipse’s umbra will be in contact with the earth but during the final four minutes, it will make a second landfall reaching central Chile at 4:39 pm local time. From there the shadow will go towards the east-southeast direction through central Argentina.
A report also added that the path of totality will eventually come to an end just before reaching the Río de la Plata and Uruguay and then it will lift off the earth at sunset and return back to space.
