In Israel, 80 percent of the eclipse will be seen. In Syria and Jordan, a Sabbath was declared during the solar eclipse
Avi Blizovsky
The solar eclipse of the end of the millennium
France is going crazy for the total solar eclipse next Wednesday, August 11th. Paco Raban's book drives many French people out of Paris. In Hungary, a huge dance party is being prepared that will culminate when darkness falls in the middle of the day on the suburbs of Budapest.
Syria and Jordan declared August 11 as a Sabbath day.
Syria's official television announced the decision, calling on residents to stay at home on the day of the eclipse. The sabbath in Jordan was decided at the cabinet meeting on Saturday, July 31.
The decision came against the backdrop of warnings published about the risks of exposing the skin and eyes without protection to the sun's ultraviolet and far-red rays during the eclipse.
Khalilek Komsol, Secretary General of the Jordan Astronomical Society, said that his country will observe a three-hour partial solar eclipse, which will begin at 1:15 p.m. on August 11.
According to him, 80 percent of the sun's face will be covered
in the circle of the moon. Comsol said that his organization is selling at a price of 2
Dinars, 3,000 pairs of glasses with special filtering lenses designed for high concrete while directly viewing defects.
In Lebanon, the government established a government committee, which will publish instructions
Special on Friday this week on ways to avoid damage while viewing the eclipse. Lebanon will also have only a partial eclipse.
As fate would have it, the last solar eclipse of the millennium will also be the most observed because unlike most
Eclipses and such occur almost every year and even more than once a year - this eclipse passes through central Europe, and over classical capitals and other large cities. To an observer from space (for example, the Russians and the French staying in Mir) this will appear as a round shadow moving rapidly from the Pacific Ocean, through Europe to India.
The width of the shaded area is 113 kilometers.
Yigal Fatal, the chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Society, details the path of the eclipse. It will take place along a long arc starting in the North Atlantic near the east coast of Canada, through Plymouth in the south of England, France (big cities Reims, the northern suburbs of Paris, Strasbourg), Stuttgart and Munich in Germany, Linz and Graz in Austria, the southern entrances of Vienna Budapest, above Bucharest , above the Black Sea, above Dayrbakir - the capital of the Kurdish region, Isfahan in Iran, Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, 200 km
north of Bombay and ends on the eastern shores of India in the Bay of Bengal.
A more partial eclipse will be seen in all of Europe, Iceland, the northeastern coasts of the American continent, the North Pole, the northern region of Africa, the Middle East and most of
Continent of Asia except its eastern parts.
The peak of the eclipse means the point where the moon, the sun and the earth will be at the minimum distance between them and then the duration of time for the observers at this point will be the longest will be at 14:03:04.4 (accuracy of hundredths of a second) according to summer time in Israel and it will be seen a little west of Bucharest. The duration of the eclipse at the point That would be 2:22.8 seconds.
In England, the peak of the eclipse (the point where the moon hides the sun completely) will be seen around 13:15 pm Israel time, in France around 13:25 pm in southern Germany
13:30-13:40 in Hungary, 13:50 in Romania, 14:00-14:10 in the Black Sea, 14:15 Turkey - at various points starting at 14:20 and will reach the southeastern end of Turkey at 14:45, will cross the end The northeast of Iraq at 14:50 will move along
Iran until 15:25 p.m. After that, it will leave Pakistan at 15:30 p.m
and at 15:40-15:45 Israel time
The eclipse will end.
Except for a few rich people who spent thousands of dollars on a Concorde flight
along the path of the eclipse, which you will allow
They have a longer view at the peak of coverage, for the stationary viewer throughout
The rainbow, will extend the covering of the sun by
The moon for about an hour and a half, then there will be about two minutes of total eclipse and again
An hour and a half process of renewed revelation
of the sun By the way, to see the eclipse at a greater length than mine
minutes as seen from the ground,
The plane must move at a speed of 1,800 km/h. ) The shadow moves quickly
an average of half a kilometer per second (,
Therefore, a Concorde type plane is needed. The Concorde, in theory,
Can allow viewing for even an hour and a half
and move in synchronization with the eclipse, but due to bureaucratic problems of clearing air corridors, will also experience
The passengers in the Concorde are only about eight to ten minutes short instead of about two minutes.
By coincidence the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but also twice as close
400, so its size is about a dome
The sky is more or less the same as the sun. This is why solar eclipses are total
last a very short period of time.
In fact there can never be an eclipse longer than seven
half a minute Solar eclipses are common
More than lunar eclipses - every year there are between two and seven eclipses
when most of them are solar eclipses. But a deficiency
Hama is visible only from the shaded area which is extremely limited and usually
Most of it passes through oceanic areas.
In contrast, the lunar eclipse is visible from above half of the Earth
Since lunar eclipses are much longer
Solar eclipses) because the shadow of the Earth is 3 times larger than the size of the Moon.
Hence we see more lunar eclipses
At each point from which the moon is seen at the same time, more than half
The Earth (therefore the chance of a person
On Earth to see a total solar eclipse in one's place of residence is one
for several hundred years.
In Israel, as mentioned, a partial deficiency will be seen. Therefore at the peak of the eclipse will be covered
Close to 80 percent (as you go north).
and especially towards the northeast) in Hermon will be very close to ninety percent
(The percentage will increase. In Tel Aviv it will start
The covering at 13:13, the peak of the eclipse will be at 14:41 and the farewell
The final between the sun and the moon
will occur at 14:59 in more northern areas the eclipse will begin
and will end a minute or two later.
Fatal warns against viewing through sooty glass or film
Photography, this is because the blackening of
The glass is not uniform and does not prevent the passage of light rays and
The ultraviolet rays. in France,
By the way, advertising companies give away special glasses for free
There is no money for the residents.
There have been no total solar eclipses in Israel in five hundred years
the last ones The last eclipse that occurred
In 1488, by the way, in the same century - the 15th century, three eclipses occurred
Hema is filled in the south of the country, 1419
1473 and 1488 and what are the expected deficiencies in the future? The next eclipse
The (partial) that will be seen from Israel will be in the future
Six years, on October 3, 2005 (even then about eighty percent)
When the peak of the eclipse will be in Sudan, and less
A year later, on March 29, Israel will see a 92 percent eclipse
When the peak of the eclipse will be seen in southern Libya.
Another interesting eclipse will occur in about two years, on June 21, 2001
see an eclipse and it will be seen in the southern part
of the African continent, the special thing is that the peak duration of the eclipse will be almost 5
subtlety.
The eclipse that is closest to full and the longest that will be seen in the country, will occur
On August 2, 2027 there will be an eclipse
whose peak will pass 200 kilometers south of Ras Muhammad. That's the biggest flaw
Close to the full that will be seen in Israel in my days
Our life and it will also last six and a half minutes.
Fatal adds that if it weren't for the eclipse it would have passed over classical Europe
This close to the end of the millennium, no one
He would talk about it, because most of the defects occur mainly above
the ocean. In 2000 there will be four
Two eclipses over the South Pole and two over the North Pole.
