A Siberian delight
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| On Friday, August 1, 2008, a celestial lineup turned daytime into dusk during the 21st century's sixth total solar eclipse. This total eclipse was visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow — the dark, inner part where the eclipse is total — began in Canada and extended across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. Inhabitants of those regions outside the central eclipse path viewed a partial eclipse if they fell under the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow — the outer, lighter part. The partial eclipse zone included northeastern North America and most of Europe and Asia. Anthony Ayiomamitis imaged the eclipse from Siberia. |
