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The solar eclipse of June 21, 2020

19 juin 2020

On June 21, 2020, the day after the summer solstice day, an annular eclipse of the Sun occurs. This is the fifteenth such eclipse in the 21ste century. At Paris Observatory - PSL, the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Calculation of Ephemerides gives the general circumstances.

Carte de l’éclipse annulaire du 21 juin 2020.
© P. Rocher / Observatoire de Paris - PSL / IMCCE

The centrality band starts in the centre of Africa. It successively crosses the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, northern Ethiopia, Yemen, northern India, China, southern Taiwan and ends in the Pacific Ocean southeast of the island of Guam.

It will be visible in its partial phase in Africa, south-eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and northern Australia.

Its magnitude is 0.9974166.

The table below gives the general circumstances of the eclipse (times given in UTC) :

Circonstances générales de l’éclipse (en UTC) du 21 juin 2020
© Observatoire de Paris - PSL / IMCCE

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