On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia.
The moon's shadow was fall on Siberia region with 250 km bandwidth.
The band centre was going across Novosibirsk.
The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished
at 11h45m UT. The total eclipse stage started at 10:44:02 UT and finished
at 10:46:21 UT.
The duration of total eclipse stage was being 2m19s that the Sun was
in south-west sky part on 30o elevation.
The weather condition in Siberia was sufficiently favorable for eclipse
observation.
Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with
RIPN, PENTAR, RCC MSU, MEADE, SSU, CORONADO, SSGA, "Magistral Telecom", TSU.
Web-cast record, photo gallery and video report are here:
