New Delhi, June 01: A partial solar eclipse will be seen in Siberia and northern China today but the sky gazers in the country will be a disappointed lot as it will be midnight here.
The partial solar eclipse will be seen at sunrise in Siberia and northern China when the penumbral (lighter outer shadow of earth) first touches earth at 00.55 am IST, Apoorva Malhotra of Space Technology Education Private Limited told PTI.
This eclipse will not be visible in India, he said, adding, observers in eastern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina will witness it.
This eclipse is visible from the region covering eastern Asia (except southern Japan), Norway, North Korea, Faeroe Islands, Svalbard, northern Alaska, northern Canada, the northern tip of Scandinavia, Greenland and Iceland, General Secretary of Planetary Society of India N Raghunanan Kumar said.
The Eclipse begins at 00.
—PTi