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Eclipses

Annular solar eclipse

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Path of annularity

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Cities along the path

Cities along the path

Time of maximum in UTC, to the minute: when the centre of the shadow passes nearest.

  1. 22:09UTCKyivUkraine
  2. 22:10UTCShenzhenChina
  3. 22:10UTCShantouChina
  4. 22:11UTCXiamenChina
  5. 22:12UTCFuzhouChina
  6. 22:12UTCTaipeiTaiwan
  7. 22:29UTCOsakaJapan
  8. 22:34UTCTokyoJapan

The eclipse at a glance

Greatest eclipse
23:52:48 UTC49.1° N, 176.3° E
Obscuration
89%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
Saros family
May 10, 1994, one saros beforeJun 1, 2030, one saros afterEclipses about 18 years and 11 days apart, with the same orbital geometry and shifted about 120° west each cycle.
The central path crosses 7 countries and territories
  • People's Republic of China
  • Hong Kong
  • Macau
  • Taiwan
  • Japan
  • United States of America
  • Vietnam