2019 Solar Eclipse Chile

While the eclipse could be seen across the argentine territory the moon covered only 60 percent of the solar diameter in the far north provinces.

2019 solar eclipse chile.

The moon was only 2 4 days before perigee making it fairly large. A total solar eclipse occurred at the ascending node of the moon s orbit on july 2 2019 with an eclipse magnitude of 1 0459. In july 2019 some 300 000 people turned out in the atacama desert a region in the north of chile that is also home to. A total solar eclipse was visible from chile on 2 july 2019.

The solar eclipse was the second visible in chile in the last 18 months. In the central zone and in the north of patagonia however the coverage percentage reached up to 99 percent. Chile saw another full solar eclipse in its northern desert in july of 2019 the first in that region since 1592 according to the chilean astronomy society. Another solar eclipse occurred one lunar year after this eclipse on june 21.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun credit. Totality was visible from the southern pacific ocean east of new zealand to the coquimbo region in chile and central argentina at sunset with the maximum of 4 minutes 32 seconds visible from the pacific ocean.