This summer's solar eclipses will occur at the ends of the Earth [Report]

Solar eclipses will occur at opposite ends of the Earth this summer 2018. Both will be partial solar eclipses seen from the Earth's surface. eclipse whose path of totality has crossed the United States, with partial eclipses observed as far north as Canada and as far south as north of South America. Professor Jay Pasachoff, Chair of the International Astronomical Union Working Group on Eclipses, will try to see both if time permits. As part of the daily solar surface will remain visible at all times, he will discuss eye safety issues for the general public at each location.

The partial solar eclipse of July 13, 2018 will be visible only from the northern edge of the Antarctic and the southern edge of Australia, including the island of Tasmania, as well as the ocean between the two. Only about 10% of the Sun's diameter 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, where Pasachoff moves for the eclipse. Melbourne will only have a 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 most northerly 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 9% coverage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pasachoff will join Swedish colleagues in the northern Kuruna town of Kuruna, about 100 miles above the Arctic Circle for 25% coverage, perhaps traveling north to the north. Torneträsk; Tromsø, Norway, will have 29% coverage. The eclipse will extend as far south as Moscow, with only about 2% coverage of the Sun, which will be high in the sky. In Yakutsk, Russia, just south of the Arctic Circle, coverage will be 57%. Coverage will be 25-50% 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.

The working group of the International Astronomical Union on solar eclipses has existed since the establishment of IAU 100 years ago and includes the United States, Canada and England. , Slovakia, Russia, Japan, China, India and France. Pasachoff will report on the history of the working group and its predecessors, commissions and subcommittees, at the Centennial Symposium to be held at the triennial General Assembly of the IAU in Vienna, Austria , at the end of the month of August. The working group is mixed between the "Sun and Heliosphere" Division and the "Education, Awareness and Heritage" Division.

After the total solar eclipse of 2017, 2018 is a year without total or annular eclipse ("ring"), so there will be a Solar Eclipse conference (sec2018.be). It will be held in Genk, Belgium, August 3-6, and various professional and amateur astronomers will discuss scientific and non-scientific topics related to eclipses. Previous Solar Eclipse Conferences were held in Antwerp in 2000, Milton Keynes in the UK in 2004, Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in 2007, New Delhi in 2011 and Sacramento Peak Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico in 2014

The solar eclipse to those discussed above will be a partial eclipse visible in East Asia – including Japan, East China, South Korea and North Korea, as well as Southwestern Alaska on January 6, 2019. (42% coverage in Tokyo and 20% coverage in Shanghai.) A total solar eclipse will cross the Pacific in the South American winter on July 2, 2019, including l & # 39; 39 Oeno Island in the Pitcairn Islands for almost 3 minutes of totality, reaching Chile for 2½ minutes of totality only 13 ° above the horizon and extending until sunset near the Atlantic coast of Argentina. An annular eclipse extending from Saudi Arabia and Oman across southern India and Sri Lanka to southern Malaysia and Singapore and to Guam in the middle of the Pacific will take place on 26 December 2019. Will follow another annular eclipse with an annular path from Africa across South Asia to the Pacific on June 20, 2020. A total solar eclipse culminating in Argentina and traversing the Chile and Argentina will perform in South American summer on December 14, 2020, with a maximum of 2 minutes 10 seconds For US viewers, the northeastern states will see partial phases of the annular solar eclipse of June 10, 2021. All of Europe and the Middle East will see the partial eclipse of October 25, 2022. Almost all of North America and South America will see phases. partial solar annular eclipse of October 14, 2023, whose path of annularity by sse of the United States north of South America. The total solar eclipse's total journey of April 8, 2024 traverses Mexico and the United States from Texas to Maine and eastern Canada, with partial phases across North America and all over the world. Central America.

More information:
Solar Eclipses Working Group: eclipses.info

Pasachoff's eclipse expeditions: totalsolareclipse.org