Solar Eclipse of January 15, 2010 in Chennai

Solar Eclipse on January 15, 2010 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Shot with my Sony Ericsson mobile camera with 2 meg pixel.

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 was an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium,^[1] and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds.

The eclipse was visible as only a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was seen as an annular eclipse within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka and parts of Bangladesh, Burma and China.