Solar Eclipse Today

Total solar eclipse today, August 1, 2008 will be a total eclipse of the Sun and that can be seen from a narrow corridor through northern Canada , Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia, and China.

It belongs to the so-called midnight sun eclipses, as it will be visible from regions experiencing midnight sun. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including eastern North America and most of Europe and India (Asia).

The solar eclipse will be specially covered at Nasa's website at http://www.eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/