Solar & Lunar eclipses?

Question

Well, I heard that in 2008 there's gonna be both a lunar and solar eclipse, and so far there's been a lunar one, so what's the date of the solar eclipse?

Answer 1

The Solar Eclipse that takes place on August 1, 2008, will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.039 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern Canada (Nunavut), northern part of Russia, western Mongolia, and China. It belongs to the so-called midnight Sun eclipses, as it will be visible from regions experiencing Midnight sun.

In Siberia, the total eclipse zone will pass through populated places, including the "capital of Siberia" Novosibirsk, and the cities of Nizhnevartovsk, Barnaul, Biysk. Greatest eclipse duration will be reached near the town of Nadym in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Northern Siberia.

A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including eastern North America and most of Europe and Asia.

Beginning of the general eclipse 08:04:06

Beginning of the total eclipse 09:11:07

Beginning of the central eclipse 09:24:10

Greatest eclipse 10:21:08

End of the central eclipse 11:18:29

End of the total eclipse 11:21:28

End of the general eclipse 12:38:27

(All time in UTC)

There was already an annular eclipse back on February 7, 2008.  That could been seen from Antarctica, Southeastern Australia, New Zealand, southeastern Melanesia, southeastern Micronesia, southeastern Polynesia, annular path across West Antarctica.

The next full one after August 1st will be July 22, 2009.  that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, central China and the Pacific Ocean (Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. Totality will be visible in many cities such as Surat, Varanasi, Patna, Thimphu, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Shanghai. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of South East Asia and north-eastern Oceania.

Answer 2

August 1st. It'll be visible in totality in parts of Canada, Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. There's a good animation showing the eclipse's path at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar... - the tiny black dot in the centre is the path of totality, and the larger dark shape shows where a partial eclipse will be visible.

There's also a partial lunar eclipse (but a good one - over three quarters of the moon in deep shadow) soon after, on the 16th, visible across Africa, Europe and parts of Asia.