Solar Eclipse 2021 date, timings and visibility in India: A total solar eclipse, which is also the last solar eclipse of the year, will be witnessed on December 4. It will be visible from Antarctica.
NASA said that it will also be visible from a few other parts of the globe. It could be partially visible from the southern tip of South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
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NASA published an interactive map showing the path of the solar eclipse 2021 across the Earth’s surface. The December 4 total solar eclipse will not be visible from India but a partial solar eclipse would be visible on October 25, 2022.
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A total solar eclipse took place when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The Sun is around four hundred times larger than the Moon. It is also 400 times further away from the Moon.
With this, phenomenon, both the Sun and Moon look similar in disk size causing the eclipse. The total solar eclipse comes two weeks after the partial lunar eclipse of November 19.
Reportedly, the solar eclipses appear every 18 months somewhere on Earth. This phenomenon lasts only a few minutes. The duration of the December 4 eclipse is likely to be 1 hour, 43 minutes.