- Title: Sri Lankans spellbound by partial solar eclipse
- Date: 26th December 2019
- Summary: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (DECEMBER 26, 2019) (REUTERS) PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE VARIOUS STUDENTS AT COLOMBO UNIVERSITY SETTING UP TELESCOPES MAN TRYING TO LOOK INTO TELESCOPE STUDENTS AT COLOMBO UNIVERSITY SETTING UP TELESCOPES PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE MAN LOOKING THROUGH CAMERA PEOPLE TRYING TO WATCH SOLAR ECLIPSE BACK OF STUDENT'S T-SHIRT READING (English): "ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO" PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WATCHING THE ECLIPSE THROUGH FILM GLASSES AND STRIPS PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE (SOUNDBITE) (English) PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT COLOMBO UNIVERSITY, SAUMYA KUMARI PATHIRANA, SAYING: "If you are in Jaffna you can see an annular eclipse. Now here at the Colombo University, in Colombo University we can, we are under Penumbra that means lighter shadow. So we can see only partial eclipse." PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
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- Keywords: Solar eclipse annular eclipse astronomy moon partial eclipse phenomenon sun telescope
- Location: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
- City: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
- Country: Sri Lanka
- Topics: Science
- Reuters ID: LVA001BBM21XJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Students at Colombo University's Astronomical Society set up their telescopes early on Thursday (December 26) to see a solar eclipse.
In Sri Lanka, the eclipse was best visible in northern Jaffna where 87 percent of the sun was covered by the moon and in Colombo about 84 percent of the sun was eclipsed.
The annular eclipse started from Dammam in Saudi Arabia and travelled across the Indian Ocean towards Southern India and over the Northern part of Sri Lanka and ended above the Pacific Ocean.
When the eclipse took place, the moon was about 400,000 km away from the earth and was moving at a speed of 1 km per second or 3,600 km per hour.
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