The eclipse began at 23.25 MSK, when the penumbra of the moon touched the earth's surface in eastern Siberia and northern China. Then she walked through the territory of western Siberia, north of the Kola Peninsula, Iceland, on the shores of Greenland and Canada. At the maximum eclipse at 21.16 MSK Luna closed the solar disk at 60,1%. Maximum phase of the eclipse could see residents transpolar areas of western Siberia and the Barents Sea coast near the Russian Kolguev and Kanin Peninsula in the Arkhangelsk region. In Reykjavik phase of the eclipse reached 46,2%, and the Faroe Islands – 50,1%. Witnessed partial eclipse, but not in the maximum phase, were residents of Kamchatka and Chukotka, Magadan Oblast and Primorsky Krai, Taimyr Peninsula, Alaska and northern Canada. The next solar eclipse in 2011 will happen July 1. Lunar shadow is only slightly (to 0.09%), obscure the solar disk, and this event will be seen only in the ocean off the coast of Antarctica, south of South Africa. View weather forecast
