On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor that traversed half of Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begin in India it swept over the Indian cities of Surat, Indore, Bhopal, Varanasi and Pata its central duration headed towards the 4-minute mark and crossed through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China.

After leaving mainland Asia, the path crossed Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and curved southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reached to 6 min 39 sec the Sun’s altitude was 86° and the path width was 258 km.

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