There is a total solar eclipse this year on 23 November but it will only be visible from Antarctica.

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Foreigners who visited Jiuquan on August 1st to view a total solar eclipse from a site nearby had to register with the police to use the road.

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For viewing the total eclipse, the best places on terra firma are in central Africa, where the eclipse will last four minutes or longer -- more than twice as long as the last total solar eclipse in 1999.

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