Solar Eclipse on Friday only seen in Europe – The Universal (Venezuela)

PARIS Moon offers a show this week: on Friday will give away a solar eclipse in Europe and on Saturday will lead to a great tide of exceptional breadth

Two shows. different will delight of fans, who will have to take precautions. While the use of special glasses will be imperative for the eclipse, a minimum of prudence curious who come to the coast to watch the waves unleashed by the great tides that reach 119 coefficients on a theoretical level recommended 120.

On March 20, the sun will be completely covered by the moon, for a short time, after a band with a semicircle around Greenland. As you move away from this area, the eclipse will be less.

This is total eclipse of the tenth century and the first eclipse of 2015 will take place the day of the vernal equinox, when the sun passes the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere.

In an area of ​​about 500 miles wide and 5,600 miles long, from the North Atlantic to the North Pole, the moon will hide the sun slowly until it is completely hidden for 2 minutes 47 seconds at most, AFP reported.

Only those who are in the Danish Archipelago Faroese around 9H41 GMT or on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to the 10h11 GMT able to see the sun become a black disk for a moment.

In a wide area around the “full range”, the eclipse will only partially. This is the case of European countries, North Africa and northwestern Asia.

“But it will, at least, a pretty sight,” if the weather stresses Philippe Henarejos, editor of the French magazine Ciel et Espace.

Supermoon

In Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, over 97% of the sun will be hidden at 9H37 GMT, in Edinburgh, the phenomenon hide 93% of the sun at 9H35GMT; London, remain hidden 84% at 9H30 GMT; in Brussels, about 80% at 9H34 GMT and in France, 78% in Paris.

“In regions where the eclipse will be partial, who did not know that this phenomenon is happening, you will not see the difference of brightness, “says astronomer Denis Savoie, director of scientific mediation Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences in Paris.

But if goggles are used, they can see how the sun is being covered by the moon, taking the form of a croissant.

Total eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun if the three stars are perfectly aligned.

But it takes another condition: “The moon must be low enough, close enough to the plane passing through the Earth and sun, so that this phenomenon occurs,” says Denis Savoie.

The moon will be noted further on Saturday with the great tides, which will be noticeable mainly in the Bay of Fundy in Canada and on the shores of the Atlantic, the English Channel and Sea Norte.

The tide is the result of the effect of the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun on the oceans.

To tides, also takes the Earth, moon and the sun are aligned says Kevin Horsburgh, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Brit. “And for particularly high tides, the moon must be above the Ecuador”.

In addition, our satellite Saturday will be a “superluna”, as it will be at its closest point to Earth.