The parts of south India, on the eastern coast, northeast, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadeep will experience a partial solar eclipse on 26th January, which would be a sight for all the skygazers.

It was reveled by the sources in the Positional Astronomy Centre on Wednesday that the southern Africa, northwestern Antarctica, Australia and Southeast Asia are the parts from where this eclipse would be visible.

As far as the duration is concerned, this annular eclipse would vary between 90 minutes to two hours.

The sources, who didn't want their names to be disclosed, reported, "The eclipse would begin at 10.27 am IST when the shadow of the moon would first touch the earth at local sunrise at a point in the South Atlantic Ocean close to Namibia in the south of the Africa continent."

The official release further informed that at 4:31 pm IST the eclipse will come to an end as at that time, the shadow of the moon would leave the earth at local sunset at a point very close to south of Cambodia in the South China Sea.

The sources informed, "The next solar eclipse on July 22 would be total and the century's longest."