At a place called TAREGNA at the Indian province of Bihar - Hordes of scientists, students and nature enthusiasts prepared Tuesday for the longest total solar eclipse of this century, while millions planned to shutter themselves indoors, giving in to superstitious myths about the phenomenon.
Full solar eclipses occur when the moon's disk blots out the sun completely, due to a precise lineup of the sun, moon and Earth. The eclipse's partial phase can be seen over a wider swath of Earth, extending from the Russian Far East to Australia's northern tip.
The total eclipse will first be sighted at dawn Wednesday in India's Gulf of Khambhat, just north of the metropolis of Mumbai, before being seen in a broad swath moving north and east to Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and China. From there, the track of totality moves across Japan's southern islands and the South Pacific
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