A long wait by sky gazers to look at a rare celestial event will end on Wednesday when the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century will be seen.

A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon [Images]. The dark silhouette of the Moon replaces the intensely bright disk of the Sun. During the total eclipse, totality is visible only from a narrow track on the surface of the Earth.

The Indian cities through which the shadow of total eclipse passes are Bhavnagar, Surat [Images], Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal, Sagar, Jabalpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Gaya, Patna, Bhagalpur, Jalpaigudi, Guwahati and Dibrugarh.

The countries to witness the path of the Moon's umbral shadow are India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China.

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