Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021

The annular solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 mostly takes place in the northern polar region. Not least because the darkness occurred just before the summer solstice, the visibility area is located so far north. Therefore, the course is also quite unusual because the eclipsed sun shines on the night side of the Earth so to speak, across the North Pole.

The annular phase can be first seen in Ontario during sunrise. The area with annular visibility continues through the Hudson Bay and Baffin Iceland to Baffin Bay. The shadow path passes over the west of Greenland, the maximum of the eclipse occurred over the Nares Strait. The corridor of the annular visibility there is 527 km wide, so also extends across the west of the strait lying Ellesmere Island and Greenland lying east. Also, the North Pole is later in the zone with annular visibility. Towards the end of the darkness yet reached the corridor with annular visibility, the New Siberian Islands and Yakutia. There the darkness is seen during the sunset if weather conditions permit it.

In Central Europe, this eclipse can be observed in their partial phase, it takes place during the lunch hours. However, only a very modest degree of coverage is achieved, in Berlin, for example, a maximum of 13.5 percent, 6.6 in Bern and Vienna there will be only 4.4 percent.