Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011
The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was the 14th of 72 solar eclipses in the Saros cycle number 151
This eclipse was partial, because the Earth was only taken from the half shadow of the moon. There was thus no place on earth, the sun could be seen completely covered from where. The coverage of the sun was 86% in Skellefteå in Sweden ( latitude 64 ° 40 ') is greatest, that is just south of the Arctic Circle and the former border of the polar night. The values for Germany, 75 % in the South West and 82 % in the Northeast. The darkness was successively between the north-western Africa ( Sunrise ), Central Europe ( morning, the sun had already risen covered ), Scandinavia (morning) and Central Asia (sunset) visible. Because of the proximity in time of the winter solstice the penumbra of the moon fell to the vicinity of the equator.
In 2011, there were three more partial solar eclipses: on June 1, July 1 and November 25. They have, like all partial eclipses its maximum coverage in a polar region. In the darkness of June 1, which is east of Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean coast, when the midnight sun is shining just above the northern horizon. The visibility area extends over the North Pole to its southern border, which runs from northern Japan through Alaska and Northern Canada to Newfoundland. Because of the proximity in time to the summer solstice the penumbra of the moon is far away from the equator.
The next eclipse on July 1st will take place on the next new moon, this is the shortest possible time interval between two solar eclipses. Two such eclipses are a direct result of the " ideal setting " for a lunar eclipse totality high. Such takes place with 100 minutes totality on 15 June 2011. In Central Europe, the moon is already darkened, the totality is not here full time observable.
Subsequent eclipses are dated 20 May 2012 ( annular, East Asia, North Pacific and North America ) and of 13 November 2012 ( total, extreme north -east of Australia and South Pacific). The next to be seen in Europe eclipse takes place as a total eclipse on 20 March 2015. Your central line ( total eclipse of the sun) passes over the North Atlantic and the North Sea, where it meets the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. In other European countries only partially covered sun can be seen.
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