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Eclipse Images from Barcelona

A cloudy day impeded us from following the eclipse in a god way.Images

Site Images. Barcelona Eclipse 20/03/15

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Broadcast from Barcelona

Eclipse live webcast maked by a team of the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology at:

http://eclipsi2015.ub.edu/

simulation of the 20th March 2015 eclipse

Eclipse leaflet

Observation places

Some teams of the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology of UB are going to do public observing with telescopes and to lend eclipse glasses:

in front of the door of the UB Historical Building (Pl. Universitat)
at Espai Ciència of the Saló de l'Ensenyament at Montjuic (entry with the ticket of the Saló de l'Ensenyament from 10 h)

Distributed Material

Astronomy an Meteorology Department distributed informative leaflets ang proteccion glasses to the diferent observation points in Barcelona and the schools which had solicited it. List

Eclipse Broadcast from other places

A Partial Eclipse from Catalonia (over 65% depending on the place of observation)

The Total Solar Eclipse will be visible from Svalbard and the Faroe Islands. Will partially eclipse from Iceland, Europe, Asia and North East and West Africa.

On Friday 20 March 2015 will be a Total Solar Eclipse visible from Catalonia as partial. The eclipse will begin its journey to the North Atlantic and advance, culminating on the Faroe Islands and then going to Svalbard. In the rest of Europe will be a partial eclipse. In Iceland, Scotland and Norway partiallity will be higher than 90%.

From the Iberian Peninsula the best position to observe it is the northwest, where you can reach 76% of ocultation.

The table below specifies the time of beginning, maximum and end of the eclipse, as well as the magnitude and obscuration at maximum, for the main Spanish cities.

Always remember watching the sun without taking appropriate precautions may cause serious eye injuries that can even lead to permanent loss of vision.

Map of the Eclipse

Ecliptic Conjunction = 09:36:10.6 (UT)

Greatest Eclipse = 09:45:39.2 (UT)

Eclipse Magnitud = 1.0446 ; Gamma = 0.9454

Saros Series = 120 ; Member = 61 de 71

Circumstances of the Greatest Eclipse

Lat. = 64º25.9'N ; Long. = 006º38.8'W

Alt. Sun = 18.5º ; Azm. Sun = 135.0º

Path Width = 462.6 Km ; Duration = 02m 46.9s

Contacts of umbra

Contact I: Starting partiality. The disc of the Moon is externally tangent to the Sun. I = 09:09:32.7 TU Contact II: Starting totality. The disc of the Moon is internally tangent to the disc of the Sun. II = 09:16:12.2 TU Contact III: End of totality. The disc of the moon is internally tangent again . But to the other side. III = 10:14:43.6 TU Contact IV: End of partiality. The disc of the moon is externally tangent again. But to the other side. IV =10:21:22.3 TU

Contact I: Starting partiality. The disc of the Moon is externally tangent to the Sun.

I = 09:09:32.7 TU

Contact II: Starting totality. The disc of the Moon is internally tangent to the disc of the Sun.

II = 09:16:12.2 TU

Contact III: End of totality. The disc of the moon is internally tangent again . But to the other side.

III = 10:14:43.6 TU

Contact IV: End of partiality. The disc of the moon is externally tangent again. But to the other side.

IV =10:21:22.3 TU

The eclipse over the world

You can find the characteristics of the eclipse anywhere in the world in this link

The eclipse in the Iberian Peninsula

Hours in oficial time.

Maximum: Moment when the center of the disc of the Moon passes closest to the center of the disk of the Sun.

Obscuration: Percentage of the Sun Area covered by the Moon.

Magnitude: Fraction of solar diameter covered by the Moon.

	BEGINNING	MAXIMUM	END	Mag.	Obs.
	(h m s)	(h m s)	(h m s)		(%)
Albacete	9 4 22	10 8 15	11 17 39	0.689	61.9
Alacant	9 4 40	10 8 39	11 18 8	0.668	59.3
Almeria	9 1 6	10 3 56	11 12 25	0.654	57.6
Ávila	9 4 33	10 8 10	11 17 17	0.737	67.8
Badajoz	9 0 36	10 2 59	11 10 60	0.720	65.7
Barcelona	9 11 10	10 16 50	11 27 36	0.701	63.4
Bilbao	9 9 37	10 14 23	11 24 21	0.768	71.7
Burgos	9 7 43	10 12 4	11 21 45	0.758	70.5
Cáceres	9 1 47	10 4 32	11 12 54	0.727	66.6
Cádiz	8 57 57	9 59 35	11 6 57	0.673	59.9
Castelló de la Plana	9 7 11	10 11 53	11 21 56	0.693	62.5
Ceuta	8 57 50	9 59 27	11 6 49	0.655	57.8
Ciudad Real	9 2 47	10 6 5	11 14 59	0.703	63.6
Córdoba	9 0 43	10 3 21	11 11 40	0.689	61.9
Cuenca	9 5 37	10 9 47	11 19 25	0.710	64.5
Donostia-San Sebastià	9 10 24	10 15 28	11 25 40	0.763	71.1
Girona	9 12 36	10 18 35	11 29 34	0.706	64.1
Granada	9 0 39	10 3 19	11 11 41	0.668	59.4
Guadalajara	9 5 36	10 9 40	11 19 10	0.726	66.5
Huelva	8 58 27	10 0 12	11 7 41	0.691	62.1
Huesca	9 9 56	10 15 9	11 25 34	0.733	67.4
Jaen	9 1 16	10 4 8	11 12 40	0.680	60.8
A Coruña	9 6 17	10 9 26	11 17 54	0.802	76.0
Las Palmas de Gran C	8 45 8	9 39 6	10 38 18	0.548	45.1
León	9 6 48	10 10 40	11 19 52	0.774	72.5
Lleida	9 10 5	10 15 26	11 25 59	0.717	65.3
Logroño	9 8 48	10 13 32	11 23 32	0.752	69.8
Lugo	9 6 14	10 9 34	11 18 14	0.792	74.7
Madrid	9 4 55	10 8 46	11 18 5	0.726	66.5
Málaga	8 59 28	10 1 43	11 9 41	0.665	59.0
Melilla	8 58 50	10 0 47	11 8 26	0.628	54.5
Murcia	9 3 39	10 7 19	11 16 33	0.666	59.1
Ourense	9 5 1	10 8 6	11 16 36	0.783	73.6
Oviedo	9 7 47	10 11 42	11 20 55	0.788	74.2
Palencia	9 6 38	10 10 39	11 20 4	0.758	70.5
Palma de Mallorca	9 9 9	10 14 21	11 24 46	0.666	59.1
Pamplona	9 9 55	10 14 58	11 25 11	0.752	69.8
Pontevedra	9 4 44	10 7 36	11 15 52	0.789	74.3
Salamanca	9 4 21	10 7 46	11 16 40	0.748	69.2
S. C. de Tenerife	8 45 9	9 39 9	10 38 22	0.559	46.3
Santander	9 9 18	10 13 52	11 23 38	0.777	72.8
Segovia	9 5 22	10 9 14	11 18 34	0.738	68.0
Sevilla	8 59 14	10 1 20	11 9 8	0.687	61.7
Soria	9 7 45	10 12 19	11 22 13	0.741	68.3
Tarragona	9 9 56	10 15 18	11 25 51	0.704	63.7
Teruel	9 6 49	10 11 21	11 21 16	0.707	64.2
Toledo	9 3 54	10 7 28	11 16 35	0.719	65.6
València	9 5 40	10 9 56	11 19 39	0.688	61.8
Valladolid	9 5 58	10 9 50	11 19 8	0.753	69.9
Vitoria-Gasteiz	9 9 12	10 13 57	10 23 57	0.760	70.7
Zamora	9 5 4	10 8 35	11 17 34	0.757	70.4
Zaragoza	9 8 50	10 13 48	11 24 3	0.728	66.7

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