Partial Solar Eclipse: March 19, 2007

Geographic Region: Asia, Alaska

The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in Pisces and is visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska.  Greatest eclipse takes place at 02:31:56 UT when the eclipse magnitude will reach 0.8754.  The penumbral contact times with Earth are listed below.

This event is the 20^th partial eclipse of Saros series 149.  After one more partial eclipse, the series will produce its first total solar eclipse on April 09, 2043.

Eclipse map and predictions courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
For more information on solar and lunar eclipses, see Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html