
AP Photo/Xinhua, Huang Shengang
The total solar eclipse as it appeared in in Anji, east China's Zhejiang Province, at 9:35 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
Updated 11:04 p.m.: Of course the Web didn't scale, the streams sludged, then stopped.
Flickr is full of Asian eclipse photos, although slivers of the sun looking like the moon tend to lose some of the grandeur of it all.
I liked this one, from Liutao in Zhuzhou, China, in Hunan province:
5:50 p.m.
NASA's eclipse site:
On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
The eclipse begins with first contact at 8:24p.m. EDT; totality is to take place between 9:37 and 9:43 p.m. EDT. This will be the longest solar eclipse until 2132.
The eclipse takes place during nighttime here, but you can watch it online:
Grupo Saros (China - Wuhan) http://www.saros.org/index.html
Eclipse City (China - Shanghai) http://www.eclipse-tv.com/
Live! Eclipse 2009 (Japan) http://www.live-eclipse.org/
SEMS-Sun Earth Moon Systems (University of North Dakota): http://sems1.cs.und.edu/~sems/index.php
The source for these is the Exploratorium's eclipse page, which has more info.




