Russian citizens have observed a rare natural phenomenon – a total solar eclipse of the first of August the inhabitants of Western Siberia, and many tourists have seen a rare natural phenomenon – a total solar eclipse. The total solar eclipse began on Earth at 9:00 21 minutes 7 seconds of Greenwich mean time (13 hours 21 minutes 7 seconds GMT), when the Moon's shadow touched the surface of the planet in the Gulf of Queen Maud. The band went through a full eclipse of the Russian Western Siberia, affecting Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaisk, Nadym and November. More than 10 000 people watched a total solar eclipse in Nadym (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District), more willing to see this rare phenomenon gathered in Novosibirsk. On the solar eclipse had come to see over a thousand Russian and foreign tourists, mainly from the Netherlands, Austria and India, as well as from Russian regions, including Moscow.
And if simple people of the world perceive the solar eclipse as simply a rare event, scientists are trying to find out any important points that occur during an eclipse. For example, a total solar eclipse has given astronomers a unique opportunity to detail 'see' the Sun's corona – the outer, the hottest layer of the solar atmosphere. But scientists and enthusiasts from Germany, Spain and Finland have studied animal behavior at the time of the Novosibirsk Zoo total solar eclipse on Friday. Physicians have studied the impact of the eclipse on the human body. And one of the insurance companies of Novosibirsk even put into an insurance contract item on which the fault accident could have been solar eclipse! The total solar eclipse – a phenomenon very rare indeed. The next such eclipse will occur July 22, 2009, it will be seen in central India, Nepal and Bhutan.