From Hovd Travel in Mongolia
Solar Eclipse
These pictures of the August 1, 2008 total solar eclipse were taken in Hovd aimag's Uyench soum.
 The Start of the Solar Eclipse on August 1st, 2008, as Seen Through Protective Lenses |
 The Eclipse Reached Totality at 7:08 p.m. |
Total Solar Eclipse August 1, 2008
On August 1, 2008, a Total Solar Eclipse cast a narrow corridor of western Mongolia, China, central Russia, the Artic Circle, and northern Canada in shadow. A partial eclipse was viewable from a much broader area, but to see the sun become completely eclipsed, you had to be somewhere inside the narrow 100 mile-wide path of totality. During an eclipse, the area experiencing totality covers less than 1% of the Earth’s surface, so to be within the path of totality is a rare event: it takes an average of 375 years to see two Total Solar Eclipses from the same place. “Totality” is considered to be one of the most awe-inspiring spectacles in all of nature, as the sky takes on an eerie twilight, and the sun’s super-heated corona becomes visible for the only time. It is an event that is singularly memorable, and cannot be conveyed adequately through words or photographs.
