A partial eclipse of sun will be visible from Bhubaneswar from 8The fullest eclipse would occur at 9:46 am with maximum obscuration of 54.7 per cent.A solar eclipse occurs when the moon comes in between the earth and the sun and when all the three bodies are aligned.An annular eclipse occurs when the moon covers the sun's centre, leaving the sun's outer edges visible to form a 'ring of fire' or annulus around the moon.The Ministry of Earth Sciences had said last week that an annular eclipse of sun will occur on December 26.It said that annular phase will be visible in the morning after sunrise from some places within a narrow corridor of southern part of the country (parts of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and it will be seen as partial solar eclipse from the rest part of the country.The ministry said that the narrow corridor of annular phase of the eclipse will pass through the southern part of the country through places like Cannanore, Coimbatore, Kozhikode, Madurai, Mangalore, ..
