The head high! It's a month of eclipses | Essentials of astronomy

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Solar eclipses will occur at opposite ends of the Earth in July and August 2018. Between the two is a total lunar eclipse – the longest of the 21st century – on July 27th.

Let's talk about solar eclipses first. Both will be partial eclipses seen from the surface of the Earth, not as spectacular as the total solar eclipse of last summer whose path of totality has crossed the United States. The working group of the International Astronomical Union on solar eclipses has published the following information:

The partial solar eclipse of July 13, 2018 will be visible only from the northern edge of Antarctica and the southern edge of Australia, including the island of Tasmania. as well as the ocean between the two. Only about 10% of the diameter of the sun will be covered by the moon at 13:24. Local time in Hobart, Tasmania, with a total duration of partial eclipse of 1 hour 4 minutes … Melbourne will only have 2% coverage and the eclipse limit will be reached in Adelaide. In New Zealand, the eclipse will be barely visible from Stewart Island south of Invercargill. No eclipse will be visible from the South Pole, which is in the middle of six months of the night.

The partial solar eclipse of August 11, 2018 will be visible from the northernmost regions of the world. The Svalbard Archipelago, controlled by Norway, site of visibility of a total solar eclipse in 2015, will have a partial eclipse of 45%. In the Scandinavian capitals of Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki, coverage will be 5%, 4% and 8% respectively; with a coverage of 9% in St. Petersburg, Russia … The city of Kuruna, in northern Sweden, about 100 miles above the Arctic Circle, will have a coverage of 25%. Tromsø, Norway, will have 29% coverage. The eclipse will extend as far south as Moscow, with only about 2% of the sun's cover, which will be high in the sky. In Yakutsk, Russia, just south of the Arctic Circle, coverage will be 57%. Coverage will be 25% to 50% in Greenland and 20% in Iceland. A narrow band of visibility will extend to 35% coverage of the solar diameter in Seoul, South Korea, and 20% in Shanghai, both with sun on the horizon. About 65% of the sun's diameter will be eclipsed at the North Pole.

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The total lunar eclipse will be primarily visible from the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand). Zealand). South America, at least in part, will be able to watch the final stages of the eclipse just after sunset on July 27, while New Zealand will catch up with the early stages of the eclipse before sunrise on July 28th. of the Pacific Ocean will be missed completely. It will be the longest lunar eclipse of the century, with one hour and 43 minutes total.

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Conclusion: Information and links on July 13, 2018 and August 11, 2018, partial solar eclipses.

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