July 22 will happen the longest total solar eclipse of the XXI century

July 22 the inhabitants of the earth will witness one of the most beautiful natural phenomena - the total solar eclipse.

The lunar shadow will touch the earth at 23:58:18 UTC (English Coordinated Universal Time), the eclipse will last 5 hours and 14 minutes and will end at 05:12:25 UTC. The total solar eclipse will be seen on the territory of India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Japan from 3 minutes to 6 minutes 30 seconds. The maximum duration of a total eclipse will be 6 minutes 39 seconds, a shadow with a diameter of 258 kilometers will be observed in the Pacific Ocean, its center will be located approximately 100 km. from the Bonin Islands .


Residents of Russia will also be able to enjoy this amazing phenomenon a little:

City	The time of the greatest phase *	Phase magnitude **
Astrakhan	5:18	0.09
Orenburg	5:18	0.03
Magnitogorsk	5:19	0.03
Omsk	5:19	0.09
Barnaul	5:19	0.20
Biysk	5:19	0.23
Chelyabinsk	5:20	0.01
Novosibirsk	5:21	0.15
Novokuznetsk	5:21	0.21
Kemerovo	5:22	0.16
Abakan	5:22	0.23
Tomsk	5:23	0.12
Krasnoyarsk	5:25	0.16
Irkutsk	5:28	0.32
Ulan-Ude	Half past five	0.34
Makhachkala	5:31	0.09
Chita	5:35	0.34
Blagoveshchensk	5:49	0.37
Yakutsk	5:54	0.02
Vladivostok	Five to five	0.58
Birobidzhan	Four to six	0.39
Khabarovsk	Five to four	0.39
Komsomolsk-on-Amur	6:01	0.31
Yuzhno-Kurilsk	6:16	0.43
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	6:10	0.38
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	6:25	0.07

* The time of the greatest phase - how much time the sun will be maximally hidden behind the moon (here we are not talking about a total eclipse, but only a partial one).
** The magnitude of the phase - the fullness of the solar eclipse. 0 - the sun can be seen completely, 1 - completely hidden.

Congratulate heartily residents of Vladivostok)