City Reporter
The Institute of Space Science and Technology (ISST) University of Karachi through a newly installed 16-inch computerized Meade telescope which can keep the record of 65, 000 astronomical objects observed the annular solar eclipse at its Astronomical Observatory on Sunday.
Assistant Professor and the in-charge KU’s Astronomical Observatory Dr Syed Tanveer mentioned that KU ISST has witnessed the astronomic event which was attended by researchers, media persons and field experts.
He informed the audience that the total duration of the annular solar eclipse was three hours and 20 minutes in Karachi which was started at 09:26 am and reached at its peak at 10:59 am and comes to an end at 12:46 pm.
Meanwhile, the Director ISST KU Professor Dr Muhammad Jawed Iqbal while giving a briefing to the local media said that when the moon covers the sun’s centre, leaving the sun’s visible outer edges to form a ‘ring of fire’, is called an annular solar eclipse.
He further said that the ring of fire mostly occurred when the moon covers almost 98 percent of the sun. He mentioned that the ring of fire was only visible in Larkana, Sukkur and Gwadar while Karachi.
