Direct coverage of the total eclipse of the Sun from KenyaRELEASE

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On 3 November the forthcoming eclipse of the Sun will be a direcly transmitted from the SibiloiNational Park on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya.

The duration of the eclipse will be 2h 14m (14:13-16:27 CET), and the event will be transmitted directly between 15:20 and 15:30 CET.

Image removed.Direct connection (Sunday, 3 November).

Further information: Spanish press release

VISIBILITY FROM EUROPE*

The eclipse will be partial from the south of Europe. Maximum occultation will occur at 13:30 in Seville, 13:35 in Madrid, 13:50 in Barcelona, 14:20 in Catania (Italy) and 14:40 in Chania (Greece). all times being in Central European Time. The best European site for observing the eclipse will be the Canary Islands, where maximum occultation will reach 30% of the Sun's disc at 12:10 UT (local Canarian time).

Partial Eclipse in Tenerife (Cosmocrónica of the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos)

Further information: Spanish Release

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