There will be the longest eclipse of the century!

When many people still haven't forgotten the total eclipse phenomenon on August 1, 2008, the world will soon have the opportunity to witness this phenomenon again.

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On May 17, the Astronomical Society of Tianjin and Jiangsu (China) both announced: In July 2009, a rare 100-year solar eclipse will have one. times will appear. Chinese people as well as people all over the world will be able to see this extraordinary natural phenomenon.

Astronomers also said that this total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009 will allow us to observe longer because the time the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun and cover completely out of the sun will last longer than the previous solar eclipse. It is expected that the time of the eclipse will be between 8am and 11am and this phenomenon may last up to 6 minutes 39 seconds.

This eclipse will be quite wide, with a length of over 10,000km, a width of 250km. Residents residing in the Changjiang River basin, and 40 provinces such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hefei, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing . and even people in other regions all have can observe this natural phenomenon.

Astronomers say that when the Sun is obscured by the Moon, the sky will darken, the birds will assume that the sky has returned to the evening and fly to the nest one after another.

According to scientific documents, China is the country that saw the earliest total eclipse with a history of more than 4000 years of solar eclipse observation.