Astronomers told about the duration of the solar eclipse on March 29

The visible part of the March 29 solar eclipse in Moscow will last 48 minutes, while in St. Petersburg the astronomical phenomenon will be visible for almost 1.5 hours. Astronomers told about it on Saturday, March 29.

It is specified that the eclipse will begin in the capital at 14:25, and its maximum phase, when the Moon will cover 2% of the solar disk, will come at 14:49.

"At 3:13 p.m., she will leave the solar disk, and the eclipse in Moscow will end," Lyudmila Koshman, an astronomer and head of the methodological support department at the Moscow Planetarium, told TASS.

Nikolai Zheleznov, a senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, added that in St. Petersburg the eclipse will begin at 14:00, reach a maximum at 14:43 and end at 15:25.

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