There will be a 15-hour eclipse of the spring equinox – Televisa News

MEXICO CITY, Mexico. Mar. 19, 2015.- This solar eclipse will be different to others because only occur 15 hours of the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. The shadow of the Moon will cross the route through the Arctic and ending on the North Pole

The penumbra landfall on two points:. The Faroe Islands and Svalbard. It will be seen as a partial eclipse throughout Europe, northern Africa, North Central Asia and Middle East Gaza and will deepen percentage northward

This 2015 will have four eclipses in total:. Two lunar Total, a total of sun and a partial solar. Four is the minimum number of eclipses that can occur in one calendar year, and although America the action of solar eclipse is lost this time, most of the continent gets a front row seat to the two total lunar eclipses They occur on April 4 and September 28.

How rare is a total solar eclipse on the spring equinox? Well, the last total solar eclipse on March equinox occurred in 1662, on March 20. There were a total hybrid eclipse was an annular eclipse along part of the journey, and for the rest, 20 March 1681. However, we will not have to wait so long for the next, another eclipse will fall in the Equinox northward on March 20, 2034.

The solar eclipse will occur one day after the lunar perigee (closest point to Earth) 19 at 19:39 hours UT when the moon stood to 357.583 km away from the planet.

The eclipse tomorrow will also be visible in the Faroe Islands in Scotland in the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Svalbard islands in the Arctic Ocean.

The eclipse will begin at 9:30 CET when the edge of the Moon comes into contact with the solar disk, and the maximum will be reached at 10:37 CET, at which four-fifths will be hidden from the sun. The eclipse will end at 11:48 CET.

The eclipse will be visible within a narrow range, starting at a point in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of the peninsula of Labrador (Canada), will cross the ocean North Atlantic without touching the ground except in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands (Denmark), cross the Norwegian Sea deep into the Svalbard (Norway) archipelago and continue through the Arctic Ocean.

It will be a solar eclipse visible partially within the path, much wider, the penumbral shadow of the moon, including Europe and North Africa and Asia.

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