The Moon was partially overshadowed by the sun, the phenomenon was also visible from Slovakia
The eclipse in Slovakia occurred over lunch.
BRATISLAVA. On Saturday it is possible to observe a partial solar eclipse. It was also visible from Slovakia. The Moon on its orbit around Earth got between the ground and the sun and part of the sun disk or the whole disc covered.
Unlike the eclipse of the Moon, which can be observed from the whole hemisphere of the Earth, the shadow of the Moon takes place only on a narrow lane on the Earth’s surface.
The average of the monthly shadow on the Earth’s surface is approximately 160 kilometers in Slovak latitudes, Monika Tináková, a spokeswoman for the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), informed.
« As a result of the rotation of the earth, the movement of the moon around the earth and the earth around the Sun, the moon shadow along the surface of the earth moves from east to a speed of about one to two kilometers per second, during one eclipse a distance of up to 15,000 kilometers can cross the ground. Russia. Even in the largest phase (in the northeastern Canada) it will be a partial eclipse, more than 92 percent of the sun disk will be covered, « explained Ján Svoreň from the Institute of the SAS astronomical.
Eclipse in Slovakia occurred through lunchwhen the sun is high above the horizon and lasted about an hour. From Slovakia, the largest phase was covered from 1.8 percent of the solar disk in Čierna nad Tisou to 6.0 percent in Holíč in Záhorie.
The spokeswoman added that the total eclipse of the sun in the same place of the Earth’s surface are not a common phenomenon.
Statistically, this is based on the same place of the Earth’s surface, one total eclipse of the sun every 360 years.
For example, the last complete eclipse of the sun from the current territory of Slovakia was visible on July 8, 1842, and the future can be observed up to 7 October 2135.
