This summer's solar eclipses from the ends of the Earth

This summer's solar eclipses from the ends of the Earth

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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-summer-solar-eclipses-earth.html

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

The International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses, in existence in some form since the IAU's formation 100 years ago, includes members from the U.S., Canada, England, Slovakia, Russia, Japan, China, India, and France. Pasachoff will report on the history of the Working Group, and its predecessor Commissions and Subcommissions, at the Centennial Symposium to be held at the IAU's triennial General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, in late August. The Working Group is joint between the "Sun and Heliosphere" Division and the "Education, Outreach, and Heritage" Division.