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Partial solar eclipse of July 1, 2011

This third solar eclipse of 2011 is only visible from a tiny strip on Antartica . Given the local winter, this partial eclipse occurs with the Sun on or just above the horizon of the Antartica landscape. It is obviously very unlikely that any ground-observer will witness this eclipse. However solar satellites in low-Earth polar orbit cross each pole approximately every 100min. In the case of PROBA2, this means that the penumbral zone of the partial eclipse will be crossed twice. Since PROBA2 is a space weather satellite aiming at publishing its observations in near-real time, we are confident that this webpage will be the first place on the planet where someone will actually see the eclipse.
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Proba-2 Versus Partial Eclipse



The simulated view from ESAs, Proba-2 spacecraft during the July 1st, 2011 partial solar eclipse of the Sun. Proba-2 may well be the only witness to this extreme southern eclipse over Antarctica, and will see partiality twice! this is also the first eclipse of saros 156.

Partial Solar Eclipse 1 Jul 2011



Just one lunation after the previous one, the third solar eclipse of the year takes place at the Moon's descending node in western Gemini. This Southern Hemisphere event is visible from a D-shaped region in the Antarctic Ocean south of Africa . Such a remote and isolated path means that it may very well turn out to be the solar eclipse that nobody sees. At greatest eclipse (08:38:23 UT), the magnitude is just 0.097.
This event is the first eclipse of Saros 156. The family will produce 8 partial eclipses, followed by 52 annular eclipses and ending with 9 more partial



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Solar eclipse to occur on July 1
 
A solar eclipse will occur at 1:38pm on July 1, the Deputy Director of the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory named after Nasireddin Tusi, Elchin Babayev, said.
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A partial solar eclipse will occur on July 1, 2011. 
This is the first solar eclipse of Saros cycle 156, only visible as a partial solar eclipse over a small area off the coast of Antarctica. At greatest eclipse, the magnitude will be just 0.097. 
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