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Total eclipse of August 11, 1999

Presentation of the eclipse



  • Description of the eclipse
  • General maps
  • Map of Europe
  • Map of France
  • The sky during the eclipse 

    • Description of the eclipse

     

    This eclipse is the last total eclipse of the XXth century. Indeed, the four eclipses of 2000 are partial. It bears the number 7631 in the canon of Oppolzer and belongs to Saros series number 145 of the canon of eclipses of Mucke and Meeus. Its central path began in Atlantic north (south of Newfoundlan), and across Europe from west to east, then Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and ends in India.

    General maps


    Visualisation of the zones of visibility of the eclipse on all the Earth

    Local maps  : zones of visibility of the total eclipse : 

    Path of the totality on Europe, conic projection of Lambert


    Map of visibility on France : 

    Path of the totality on France


    Simplified map of the sky at the time of the eclipse :