© Photo: NRK News / Slooh.com
© Photo: NRK News / Slooh.com
MOSCOW, March 20 – RIA Novosti. The island of Svalbard completely plunged into darkness today at 13 hours and 12 minutes, when the Moon’s shadow completely eclipsed solar disk from observers and telescopes on the island, the Internet Observatory Slooh.
The first in 2014 eclipse began in the North Atlantic, then, after passing through the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian Sea, the Moon’s shadow proceeded to the archipelago of Svalbard, and then north to the North Pole. The maximum duration of a total lunar eclipse reaches 2 minutes 47 seconds at phase 1.044 (namely by an amount the apparent size of the moon will exceed the size of the sun). The point of maximum eclipse will be in the Norwegian Sea to the east of Iceland.
The maximum phase partial eclipse in Moscow was 0.65. Most phase, which can be observed from the territory of Russia, will be 0.87 – Murmansk. In Eastern Siberia and the Far East, this phenomenon can not be observed.
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