What are best places on earth for viewing total solar eclipse on 1 August?

Question

I live in Southern California; I don't think this is ideal location for viewing it.

Answer 1

No, you're not even close to it. There is a map at http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/2008...

Answer 2

Egypt or Vietnam.

Answer 3

08:04 UTC (GMT) - Beginning of the general eclipse

09:23 UTC (GMT) or 04:23 local time- Total Solar Eclipse begins in northern Canada (Nunavut) (GMT-05)

09:30 UTC (GMT) or 07:30 local time- northern Greenland (GMT-02)

10:00 UTC (GMT) or 14:00 (02pm) local time- Novaya Zemlya (GMT+04)

10:10 UTC (GMT) or 16:10 (04:10pm) local time - reaching mainland of Russia (GMT+06)

10:21 UTC (GMT) or 16:21 (04:21pm) local time - greatest eclipse near Nadym (GMT+06)

10:45 UTC (GMT) or 17:45 (05:45pm) local time - Novosibirsk, Russia (GMT+07)

10:48 UTC (GMT) or 17:48 (05:48pm) local time - Barnaul, Russia (GMT+07)

10:57 UTC (GMT) or 18:57 (06:57pm) Mongolia time - Russia-Mongolia border (Mongolia time GMT+08)

10:59 UTC (GMT) or 18:59 (06:59pm) local time - Altay, China (GMT+08)

11:10 UTC (GMT) or 19:10 (07:10pm) local time - near Hami, China (GMT+08)

11:15 UTC (GMT) or 19:15 (07:15pm) local time - Jiuquan, China (GMT+08)

11:20 UTC (GMT) or 19:20 (07:20pm) local time - near Xi'an, China (GMT+08)

11:20 UTC (GMT) or 19:20 (07:20pm) local time - Eclipse ends (GMT+08)

12:38 UTC (GMT) - End of the general eclipse

Source(s):

www.worldtimezone.com/time-solar-eclip... -

Answer 4

It can not be seen from the USA

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.htm...

Here is the NASA eclipse site.  

Next in the USA will be in 2017

http://www.mcglaun.com/eclipse/eclipse20...

Answer 5

Northern Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Russia, Mongolia and China. From the whole of the British Isles observers will see a partial solar eclipse, with between 1/10th and 1/3rd of the Sun obscured by the Moon.