Sky gazers on Ioto island and a passenger ship in the Pacific Ocean, south of Tokyo, were able to view the longest total solar eclipse of the century on Wednesday.
On the island of Ioto, Japan's National Astronomical Observatory and NHK jointly observed the total solar eclipse. At 11:25 AM, the sun was hidden by the moon and the phenomenon, called "black sun", appeared.
Sky gazers also observed a phenomenon called the diamond ring, in which sunlight glows like a ring just before and after the moon blocks the sun. The astronomic show lasted more than 5 minutes.
Amateur astronomers on a passenger ship cruising near the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo, also viewed the eclipse.
They applauded at the sight of a corona glowing around the sun and sunset-like scenery along the horizon.
Unfortunately, those who gathered on Akuseki-jima Island off Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Japan were cursed by bad weather. If the clouds had parted, the total eclipse would have been observed for the longest from any inhabited part of the world this century, lasting more than 6 minutes from 10:53 AM.
But the sun was not seen from the island as well as nearby locations, because of rainy weather.
A partial eclipse was observed elsewhere in Japan.
The eclipse also darkened wide areas of Asia from India and China to Japan. The total eclipse was the first observed in Japan in the 46 years since 1963.
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