Ed. Print WEST, THE CLOUDS marred THE SHOW
Northern Europe enjoyed a privileged solar eclipse. – Agencies Agency
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Northern Europe yesterday enjoyed a privileged solar eclipse and a few thousand people were watch for a couple of minutes the whole phenomenon from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, while clouds partially marred the experience in the Faroe Islands.
The populations of Europe, northwest Africa and Asia and East Middle hoped pleasure to contemplate the phenomenon, but in most cases were not clouds that hid the moon to the sun.
The Faroe autonomous Danish territory located in the Atlantic, and Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, were the only two points of the planet from which he watched the solar disk was completely hidden today by the moon.
In the archipelago of Svalbard the eclipse could be seen unimpeded thanks that the sky was clear of clouds, although temperatures ranging from 15 to 20 degrees below zero.
The arrival of visitors to these islands was considerable and its main town, Longyearbyen, was duplicated these days its population, which usually is less than 2,000.
Since the hotel rooms did not cover the demand, and the campsite can only accommodate a hundred people, locals rented rooms and houses to accommodate the other visitors, as reported by the tourist office in Svalbard.
Meanwhile, nearly 10,000 people were displaced to witness the spectacle to the Faroes, located between Scotland and Iceland, where hotel rooms were exhausted ago weeks, according to local authorities.
The attention to eclipse was also largest in Scandinavia, where the moon came to cover 90 percent of the total area of the solar disk at some points, although visibility was subject to weather conditions.
In Germany also were many people who joined observing the sky in events organized or spontaneous gatherings in parks, though the clouds marred the show at its northernmost end where the moon covered up to 83 percent of the sun.
Much had been speculated that during the eclipse blackouts were registered in the country, and major companies managing distribution networks energy expressed satisfaction after passing the test without problems.
The companies themselves had reported in the previous days of the measures taken to avoid supply disruptions, recalling that in Germany much of the energy comes from the photovoltaic plants with an installed capacity of 39,000 megawatts, and that during the eclipse, for two and a half hours the sun would be well hidden part.
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