Taiwan television stations rushed to cover the total solar eclipse that was visible Wednesday from within a narrow corridor stretching from northern India to central China and the Pacific Ocean. Public Television Service, in collaboration with the Central Weather Bureau's Astronomical Observatory, ran a special report between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on the astronomical phenomenon and broadcast live images of the eclipse as seen from different Asian countries. The cable TV station TVBS dispatched news teams abroad to report on the event live from India, mainland China and Japan, where the sun could be seen in total eclipse. One of TVBS' special reports was from China's Hangzhou City, where Professor Sun Wei-hsin from National Taiwan University was leading a group students on a trip to watch the surging tide of the Qingtang River. It was expected that the tide would be unusually affected by the alignment of the sun, moon and earth during the solar eclipse. Another TVBS report covered the reaction of giant pandas in Sichuan Province during the eclipse. In Taiwan, the maximum eclipse -- about 80 percent -- occurred at 9: 40 a.m. and sun's disc reappeared fully again at around 11 a.m. Average temperatures in Taiwan dropped by 1 degree Celsius to 31 degrees when the eclipse reached full magnitude, but by noon temperatures in Taipei City had shot up to some 36 degrees Celsius. The Central Weather Bureau said that a partial solar eclipse will not be visible in Taiwan again until Jan. 15, 2010. However, an annular eclipse, in which the moon appears to be covering an area in the center of the sun, will be visible in Taiwan March 21, 2012 in areas north of Miaoli County, the bureau said. A total solar eclipse, which is expected to occur in 2070, will be visible at full magnitude in Taiwan, bureau officials said. 