Australians will see a total solar eclipse

However, according to scientists to see a full phase of an eclipse it will be possible only in the north of Australia. Let's remind that solar eclipses occur, when the Moon appears precisely between the Sun and Earth. As visible diameters of the Sun and the Moon are very close, the Moon can close completely a sun disk, and in the sky there is a black circle in a frame of a shining crown - the being shone external area of the atmosphere of the Sun invisible in usual conditions. Because of the small size of a spot of a lunar shadow - about 300 kilometers - a total eclipse can be seen only in a narrow strip on Earth surface on which it passes. The present eclipse will begin at 19.37 across Greenwich on November 13 (21.37 across Kiev) when the Moon penumbra will concern Earth. Approximately in an hour, at 20.35 across Greenwich, the full phase will begin - the lunar shadow will begin the way with the northern coast of Australia, from a point approximately in 150 kilometers to the west of the city of Darwin. Then the shadow will cross the gulf Gulf of Carpentaria and again will return on a land in Queensland. Cairns on the western coast of Australia where there live about 150 thousand people will be the largest city on a way of a lunar shadow, "the eclipse capital".