Path of totality
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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.
- 07:43UTCKanangaDemocratic Republic of the Congo
- 07:46UTCMbuji-MayiDemocratic Republic of the Congo
- 10:12UTCHubballiIndia
- 10:25UTCBhubaneswarIndia
- 10:30UTCChattogramBangladesh
- 10:34UTCKunmingChina
- 10:34UTCQujingChina
- 10:34UTCAnshunChina
The eclipse at a glance
- Greatest eclipse
- 08:53:11 UTC0.1° S, 47.1° E
- Obscuration
- 100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
- Saros family
- Feb 26, 1998, 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 8 countries and territories
- Angola
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Tanzania
- Kenya
- India
- Bangladesh
- Myanmar
- People's Republic of China