India today witnessed celestial marvel,the millennium's longest solar eclipse in the southern tip of Rameswaram and its neighbourhood. The rest of India witnessed partially the annular eclipse, which began at 11:17 AM at Dhanushkodi island, the best location to watch the eclipse.A spectacular celestial event sighted when photosphere of the sun was covered by the moon thereby forming a ring of fire in the sky for more than 10 minutes. A similar event but not of this duration is expected to occur in 2019 which will be visible in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.An efforts by science associations and rationalists to remove scare among the people based on superstitious beliefs, major temples remained closed throughout the country and people thronged from Jan 14 Thursday onwards is the first day of the Mahakumbh in Haridwar, a religious fair that takes place every 12 years holy rivers for a ritual bath to wash away their sins at the end of the four-hour-long astronomical event Jan 15.In Kanyakumari, the eclipse was watched by a team of six scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
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