Surya Grahan: Badrinath temple reopens after eclipse
Uttarakhand:
The famous Badrinath temple opened at 1:55 p.m., a favorable time, according to the priests’ decision. The temple was closed yesterday due to Surya Grahan or the solar eclipse which ended a few hours ago. The eclipse lasted in India for approximately six hours – from 9:15 a.m. to 3:04 p.m. The maximum eclipse was at 12:10 p.m.
In front of Surya Grahan, the doors of the four Chardham temples of Uttarakhand – Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri – were closed at 10 p.m. last night.
“Prayers at the Badrinath temple will not be offered until after 2 pm after the cleanup,” priest Bhuvan Chandra Uniyal told the ANI news agency.
#WATCH Uttarakhand: The gates of the Badrinath temple opened at 1:55 pm today, after #Solar eclipse. pic.twitter.com/fheaQkFOsj
– ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2020
Not only was Chardham, several temples across India were closed due to Surya Grahan.
While the partial solar eclipse has been observed across the country, the best visibility or maximum eclipse has been limited to a narrow stretch covering parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Astronomers have called today’s eclipse “the most spectacular fire eclipse” in years. A “ring of fire” or an annular eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth arrive on the same plane and that the Moon is furthest from the Earth. The Moon does not block all the Sun because it is smaller and therefore looks like a dark disc surrounded by a ring of flame color and which creates the “ring of fire” effect.
