Total Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017
Total eclipse begin in the north of the Pacific Ocean, will cross the United States of America and end in Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Images taken from EUA by Eduard Masana [ICCUB (IEEC-UB)]
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Eclipse visibility
| Eclipse will be seen as partial throughout USA, Centre of America, north of South America, a part of Western Europe, North Africa and a part of Northeast of Russia. | ||
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| Eclipse will be seen as partial from a part of the Iberian Peninsula. The Northwest, near Vigo will be the better place to view the eclipse, with a 14% of occultation. | ||
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| From most of Catalonia they won't be able to see the eclipse because of the sunset. | ||
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Map of the eclipse
| Ecliptic Conjunction= 18:31:19.5 TU Greatest Eclipse= 18:26:40.3 TU Eclipse Magnitud = 1.0306 Gamma =0.4367 Saros Series = 145 Member= 220 de 77 |  |
| Image of the characteristics of the eclipse. F. Spenak |
Circumstances of the Greatest Eclipse
| Lat. = 36º 58N | Long. = 87º 40.3'W | |
| Alt. Sun= 63.9º | Azm. Sun = 197.9º | |
| Path Width = 114.7 Km | Duration = 02m 40.1s | |
Contacts of umbra
| Contact I | Starting partiality. The disc of the Moon is externally tangent to the Sun. | I =16:48:36.1 TU | |||
| Contact II | Starting totality. The disc of the Moon is internally tangent to the disc of the Sun. | II = 16:49:36.1 TU | |||
| Contact III | End of totality. The disc of the moon is internally tangent again . But to the other side. | III = 20:01:39.6 TU | |||
| Contact IV | End of partiality. The disc of the moon is externally tangent again. But to the other side. | IV =20:02:34.4 TU | |||
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