According to the latest available information, there will be another eclipse of the sun covering almost the entire South Pacific and much of South America next Sunday, July 11. This eclipse is scheduled to begin in the early morning over the western Pacific and it will move east, finally ending over the bottom part of South America.
The eclipse will move very quickly at its beginning, with a slight slowing down in the middle, and then picking up speed again towards the end. As an average calculation, the eclipse will move across the Pacific at a speed of more than 2,500 miles an hour for almost two and three quarter hours.
The path of totality during next Sunday’s solar eclipse, with the moon completely blocking the light of the sun, will pass over the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, and also over isolated Easter Island further east. Several cruise ships will take interested eclipse watchers into the path of totality in the vast ocean nearby to French Polynesia. On Easter Island itself, an inflow of many tourists will be feted to a full day of local festivities, which will include the opportunity to observe the total eclipse itself.
This solar eclipse next Sunday will grant a remarkable opportunity to international radio monitors living in the many countries in the South Pacific, all the way from Australia to South America. Listeners will have an opportunity to tune into shortwave and mediumwave stations that are not regularly heard during the daytime hours.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS71 via Adrian Peterson)
The eclipse will move very quickly at its beginning, with a slight slowing down in the middle, and then picking up speed again towards the end. As an average calculation, the eclipse will move across the Pacific at a speed of more than 2,500 miles an hour for almost two and three quarter hours.
The path of totality during next Sunday’s solar eclipse, with the moon completely blocking the light of the sun, will pass over the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, and also over isolated Easter Island further east. Several cruise ships will take interested eclipse watchers into the path of totality in the vast ocean nearby to French Polynesia. On Easter Island itself, an inflow of many tourists will be feted to a full day of local festivities, which will include the opportunity to observe the total eclipse itself.
This solar eclipse next Sunday will grant a remarkable opportunity to international radio monitors living in the many countries in the South Pacific, all the way from Australia to South America. Listeners will have an opportunity to tune into shortwave and mediumwave stations that are not regularly heard during the daytime hours.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS71 via Adrian Peterson)