The millennium's first lunar eclipse on Wednesday would be partly visible in India.
The eclipse would begin before moonrise at 7:05 pm and be total at 8:26 pm, Director of the Positional Astronomy Centre (PAC) K K Chakraborty said in Kolkata on Tuesday.
The eclipse, would be visible from Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Kohima, Kolkata and Mumbai. It would end at 2145 hrs, he said. The eclipse lasting 160 minutes can be witnessed from Antartica, New Zealand, Australia, eastern and central Asia, eastern Africa, Hawai and the central Pacific Ocean, he added. Bureau Report