Total Solar Eclipse 9 MARCH 2016

 

The last solar eclipse was a total eclipse on March 20, 2015. The long period of totality of this eclipse on 9th march 2016,  will be just over 4 minutes. The eclipse will begin over the Indian Ocean, and the moon’s shadow first makes landfall on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. It then passes over Borneo, Sulawesi and Halmahera, before heading out into the Pacific Ocean, ending north of Hawaii. The partial eclipse will be visible over southern and eastern Asia, northern and western Australia, and much of the Pacific, including Hawaii.