Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009

The annular eclipse January 26, 2009 took place mainly over the sea. She started in the South Atlantic and moved far to the south of the Cape of Good Hope at Africa over. Furthermore, the zone of the annular eclipse wandered north-east across the entire Indian Ocean. There also the culmination of darkness has been reached, the annular phase lasted here 7 minutes and 54 seconds, with the width of the zone annular eclipse 280 km measured. The moon shadow moved at this point at about 2055 km / h over the Indian Ocean.

Towards the end of darkness southern Sumatra was with the volcano Krakatoa in the zone of the annular eclipse. Darkness finally ended in Indonesia at sunset.

From Central Europe from the darkness was not observable.