2017/08/02

Are you ready for the Total Solar Eclipse?


For many, this is the sign of "the end of world". Otherway, in anycase, it's a very special event from the sky.

read more: eclipse2017.nasa.gov - space.com - eclipse2017.org

The eclipse will be visible in a long shadow corridor that will cross all the United States of America. The largest eclipse will last 2 minutes and 41.6 seconds at coordinates 37 ° 38'12 "N 89 ° 15'24" W near Makanda Township south of Carbondale, Illinois. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible in the southeastern United States after the last eclipse of March 7, 1970.

In northwestern Europe eclipse will only be visible partially in the evening or sunset. Only Iceland, Scotland and Ireland can observe eclipse from start to finish, while in the rest of the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal the sunset will take place before the end of the eclipse.

info from: wikipedia.org