Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018
Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018 | |
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Course of the penumbra on the earth's surface |
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classification | |
Type | Partially |
area | Northern Europe , Northeast Asia |
Saros cycle | 155 (6 of 71) |
Gamma value | +1.1478 |
Greatest eclipse | |
place | Arctic Ocean , southwest of Wrangel Island |
location | 70 ° 24 ′ N , 174 ° 30 ′ E |
time | August 11, 2018 09:46:15 UT |
size | 0.7361 |
The solar eclipse of August 11, 2018 was a purely partial eclipse, so the earth was only hit by the penumbra of the moon.
Degree of coverage
The visibility area included the countries Greenland , Norway , Svalbard , Jan Mayen , Scotland , Faroe Islands , Sweden , Finland , Lithuania , Estonia , Iceland , Canada , Russia , China , Mongolia , Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan . The maximum phase was reached in Eastern Siberia . In Western Europe, the visibility limit was high in the north - Denmark and southern Sweden are already too far south. In northern Scandinavia and in the Moscow area only a low degree of coverage was achieved, as was the case in eastern China , where the eclipse took place during sunset.
Gallery
Balei , Russia