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.
- 00:59UTCChitaRussia
The eclipse at a glance
- Greatest eclipse
- 01:23:45 UTC57.8° N, 130.7° E
- Obscuration
- 100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
- Saros family
- Feb 26, 1979, one saros beforeMar 20, 2015, 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 4 countries and territories
- People's Republic of China
- Mongolia
- Russia
- Kazakhstan