Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010

The total solar eclipse of July 11, 2010 took place almost exclusively through the southern Pacific Ocean. With a maximum duration of totality of 5 minutes and 20 seconds, this eclipse is one of the longer ones.

In the total area belonging to Polynesia atolls Hikueru and Amanu were, also Easter Island was on the path of the umbra. There was the totality of 4 minutes and 50 seconds, the 186 km wide there umbra covered the entire island.

The partial phases were not observable from Europe.

Course

3000 km northeast of New Zealand, near the Tonga Islands (26 ° 52 ' S, 170 ° 59' W 26.866666666667 - 170.98333333333 ), the umbra of the Moon first met on the ground. There the darkness took place during sunrise. Then the umbra crossed the entire Pacific. Towards the end of the darkness in Chile reached the South American continent, crossed Patagonia and ended in the southern Argentine Andes. The setting sun was in there around 2 -minute totality, only a height of 2 ° above the horizon.

The peak of the eclipse was at 19:34 UT (Universal Time ) in the Pacific (19 ° 46 ' S, 121 ° 53' W 19.761666666667 - 121.88166666667 ), 2000 kilometers east of the Tuamotu Islands. Where the maximum duration has been reached on the central line of 5 minutes and 20 seconds of totality, the umbra was about 259 km wide, the eclipsed sun was 47 ° above the northern horizon.

In its partial phase was the darkness of large parts of the South Pacific, Polynesia, the Cook Islands and the southern areas of South America are observed.

The following eclipses

The next major eclipse takes until more than 22 months after this place and that on May 20, 2012. Darkness This is in contrast to this ring, it can be seen in East Asia and North America. In 2011, there is no central eclipse, but there occur four partial: January 4, June 1, July 1 and November 25. The eclipse of January 4, 2011 could be observed in good weather conditions in the morning hours in Central Europe.