The first solar eclipse in 2011!

At 9 o'clock 40 minutes Moscow time on Earth on January 4 began the first partial solar eclipse of four that will take place in 2011. See the eclipse weather permitting, will the inhabitants of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
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In Russia, including Moscow, one can observe a partial phase of the eclipse. RIA Novosti notes that at 11 o'clock 51 minutes on Moscow time Moon closed the solar disk by 86 percent. In Moscow, the eclipse began at 10 o'clock 38 minutes and peaked at 12 hours and 4 minutes, when the moon has closed 81, 2 percent of the solar disk.



The sky was clear in the capital, so the residents of the capital was able to see the eclipse. Headquartered in Moscow, the eclipse can be observed in Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk.

All inhabitants of the earth in the new year may witness six eclipses - four partial solar and two total lunar.



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