A solar eclipse crossed the sky of the northern hemisphere on Thursday, over a strip of about 500 km running from Canada to Siberia, passing through Europe, where it was only partial but still dangerous for people. eyes.
At the peak of this so-called annular eclipse, the Earth people saw the Moon slowly glide in front of the Sun, to transform it for a few minutes into a thin luminous ring, like a "circle of fire" in the June sky.
A show reserved for the few inhabitants of the highest latitudes, who are right in the axis: North-West of Canada, far-North of Russia, North-West of Greenland and North Pole, where the occultation of the solar disk was 90%.
The annular eclipse was also visible, but only partially, in northwestern North America, much of Europe, including France and Great Britain, as well as part of the North. from Asia.
The eclipse lasted about two hours, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in mainland France, with a maximum between 11:55 a.m. and 12:20 p.m.