Solar Eclipse @ Kotturpuram, Chennai

Chennai Birla Planetarium /Tamilnadu Science and Technology Centre (location) was all set for the mega event of the year, Solar Eclipse of Jan 15, 2010



All decorated with lightbulbs



Early morning scenes!



Police force ready for controlling the crowd



Men fixing the telescope and other equipments



The rush started by 10 a.m itself




There was a kilometre long queue to view the eclipse and length of the queue was ever incresing.Its like family outing almost like a mahakumbhmela




and here you see an illegal seller of goggles (you get free goggles inside) later the officials asked him to leave the premises and I found him outside selling the same




People are seeing Eclipse through telescope,


freely distributed goggles, welding glasses and films




There are standees kept explaining about the Solar Eclipse



Eclipse seen through a welding glass, captured in my mobile



Camera man of a local TV channel trying to fix the shot for a live telecast


Eclipse seen on a paper, reflected from a lense