Solar Eclipse 2024: What Is The Longest Duration Of Total Solar Eclipse?

The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on July 22, 2009, when totality lasted 6 minutes and 39 seconds.

The Moon will come in between the Earth and the Sun today, obscuring its light and casting a dark shadow in some regions on Earth. The solar eclipse is scheduled to begin around 9pm Indian Standard Time on Monday (April 8) and cast a dark shadow on path of totality - the narrow band where people will witness the Sun being completely obscured by the Moon, also known as total solar eclipse. Unless people are on that line - the path of totality - they will only see a partial eclipse.

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The total solar eclipse has five phases: Partial, total, totality and maximum, the ending of total eclipse and finally, the Sun comes out as partial eclipse ends too.