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A total solar eclipse will have millions of people across a heavily populated swath of North America gazing toward the heavens on Monday. However, the celestial event will not be visible in Pakistan or India.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the eclipse will be visible from West in Europe, North America, North in South America, Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic.
“However it will be not visible in Pakistan,” it added.
Meanwhile, Hindustan Times reported that the total solar eclipse would also not be visible in India.
The eclipse will be viewable, weather permitting, along a path starting in Mexico and then crossing through the United States and into Canada. Eclipse fans are gathering in places along the “path of totality” including the city of Fredericksburg in central Texas, where the total eclipse will occur shortly after 1830 GMT.
That is where Michael Zeiler, a veteran eclipse chaser from New Mexico who already has witnessed 11 total eclipses across the globe, plans to be.
“First-time viewers of a total eclipse will be gobsmacked by the sight,” Zeiler said. “It will be a peak life experience.”
At up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds, this one will last longer than the total eclipse that streaked across parts of the United States in 2017, which clocked in at up to 2 minutes and 42 seconds.
According to NASA, total eclipses can last anywhere from ten seconds to about seven and half minutes.
Some cities along the path of totality include: Mazatlan, Mexico; San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; both Niagara Falls, New York, and Niagara Falls, Ontario, site of the famed waterfall, and Montreal, Quebec.
A partial eclipse will be visible in North America outside the path of totality.
About 32 million people in the United States live within the path of totality, with federal officials predicting another 5 million people will travel to be there.
This will be the ninth total eclipse for Anthony Aveni, author of the book In the Shadow of the Moon: The Science, Magic and Mystery of Solar Eclipses and a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, sociology and anthropology at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
“It’s an interruption in nature’s status quo,” Aveni said. “And it’s an interruption that takes your breath away.”
Forecasters have said the weather could be cloudy in a large portion of the path of totality.
Zeiler, a cartographer and amateur astronomer, said he will study satellite images in the hours before the eclipse and will hustle if needed in his car at the last moment to a spot where a clear skies are expected. Zeiler created the Great American Eclipse website, filled with maps and data on eclipses.
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