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Mumbai scientist set to witness his sixth solar eclipse from US
Updated On: 18 August, 2017 05:05 PM IST | Mumbai | Gaurav Sarkar
<p>City-based scientist Arvind Paranjpye, who is set to witness his sixth solar eclipse from Idaho, US, hopes to decode the celestial occurrence with new study</p>
A solar eclipse in progress. File pic. (inset) Arvind Paranjpye
Even as popular myth surrounding the solar eclipse hails the once-in-a-lifetime celestial event as inauspicious, one curious scientist has been chasing this phenomenon for the last four decades. On August 21, Arvind Paranjpye, who is now the director of Nehru Planetarium, will bear witness to yet another social eclipse -- his sixth since 1980 -- from Idaho in the US, where he will be studying the shadow bands, as well as the solar corona of the sun. "For the last 39 years, I have been watching eclipses from different places," said Paranjpye.
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