June 21, 2020 will be an eclipse. How to watch it

This Sunday, June 21, residents of some countries of the world will be able to observe an annular solar eclipse, in which the Sun, Moon and Earth line up in one line. The duration of the total eclipse phase will be about 38 seconds.

Where will it be seen?

The eclipse will be visible in almost all of Africa, in the southeast of Europe, in Asia (except for northern parts of Russia), in Indonesia, in northern Australia, in the northern part of the Indian and in the western part of the Pacific ocean.

On the territory of Russia, the best conditions for observations will be in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts, in the south of Western Siberia and in the Primorsky Territory.

What time to watch?

You can find out the exact time when this eclipse can be observed in your region through a special NASA website. It features an interactive map showing the best visibility zone. You can put a marker on the map, which will indicate the UTC time of the beginning and end of the eclipse for the selected area.

To convert the time to local time, you need to add the time value corresponding to your Greenwich Mean Time zone. Here's what you get:

• in Sochi - 07:56 (04:56 + 3 hours);
• in Krasnodar - 08:01 (05:01 + 3 hours);
• in Rostov-on-Don - 08:08 (05:08 + 3 hours);
• in Kazan - 08:39 (5:39 + 3 hours);
• in Moscow - 08:49 (05:49 + 3 hours);
• in Yekaterinburg - 10:44 (05:44 + 5 hours);
• in Novosibirsk - 12:54 (05:54 + 7 hours);
• in Irkutsk - 14:20 (06:20 + 8 hours);
• in Vladivostok - 17:00 (07:00 + 10 hours).

Is it possible online?

In the cities of Russia it will be possible to observe only a partial eclipse, and then it will depend on cloudiness and meteorological conditions in general. Therefore, in order not to miss this event for sure, you can take advantage of the online broadcast on YouTube, which is organized by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.