It won't be visible in the United States, though, not even as a partial eclipse. :cry:
The Eye of God returns
PARIS (AFP) - It has been called the Sun-eating Dragon. The Spirit of the Dead. The Eye of God. A harbinger of great events, good and evil -- terrible famines, bumper harvests, wars, the birth and death of kings.
On Wednesday, tens of millions of people will be treated to this spine-tingling celestial sight: a total eclipse of the Sun.
At 0836 GMT, our moon will be perfectly aligned with our star, and the lunar shadow will alight on the tip of eastern Brazil.
Racing eastwards across the Atlantic, the umbra will reach the coast of Ghana at 0908 GMT, then head across Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya -- where the eclipse will be at its longest, lasting four minutes, seven seconds -- and then northwestern Egypt.
It will then zip across the Mediterranean, passing between Crete and Cyprus before making landfall in Turkey, traversing Georgia, southern Russia and then in Kazakhstan.
The shadow briefly crosses Russia again before expiring at sunset in Mongolia at 1148 GMT after a marathon of three hours, 12 minutes and 14,500 kilometres (9,000 miles).
Around 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) either side of this path of totality, observers will get a partial eclipse. For instance, about a fifth of the Sun will be obscured in Britain, southern Sweden and the southern Gulf.
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