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Longest Solar Eclipse of the Millennium |
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The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 is an annular eclipse of the Sun with a
magnitude of 0.9190.
This is the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, and the longest
until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds. (The
solar eclipse of January 4, 1992 was longer, at 11 minutes, 41 seconds,
occurring in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.)
After 108 years it just Happened.

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