The mid - week of August are usually study over by the Perseids meteor shower , but there ’s another challenger this year . A partial solar eclipse will be seeable on August 11 , just hours before the acme of the Perseids .
The lunar month will cover about65 percent of the solar diskat the most , with its maximum happening in the East Siberian Sea near the Wrangel Island at 9:47 am UTC ( 5:47 ET ) . The eclipse will be seeable from many state in the Northern Hemisphere , with Eastern Canada experiencing it after dawn and North and South Korea able to see the upshot at sundown . Seoul will see a 35 percentage reportage of the Sun .
Norse capital Helsinki , Oslo , and Stockholm will respectively experience 8 , 5 , and 4 percent reporting of the solar disk . Scotland will experience similar degree of coverage as well . For Europe and Western Russia , the high the parallel , the higher the coverage , but in Asia being toward the East also help . The occultation will be seeable throughout Siberia , Mongolia , and most of China , while the percent cover charge in Shanghai will be about 20 pct , some what people in Iceland are go to experience . contain outa location maphere .
This eclipse is part of the Metonic series of occultation , which echo almost every 19 years exactly , in a cycle of five . This one is the last in this cycle , with the previous four consider office on August 12 , 1942 , August 11 , 1961 , August 10 , 1980 , and August 11 , 1999 . The last one was a full eclipse visible across most of continental Europe and attract similar medium interest to 2017 ’s Great American Eclipse .
The Metonic cycle is important in both ancient and modernistic calendar – the Babylonians and Ancient Chinese used it , and it is still used in the modern Hebrew calendar . It was also used to estimate the date of Easter in the Middle Ages . The most notable example of the exercise of this system is probably the Antikythera chemical mechanism , an ancient Greek clockwork computer that , thanks to 37 gears , was able to postdate the movement of the Moon and the Sun with respect to the zodiac as well as predict occultation .
The next solar eclipse will be another fond one on January 6 , 2019 , visible in Eastern Asia . The next full one will happen on July 2 , 2019 , across the Pacific Ocean and South America .
