article_snippet: The path of totality for Friday's eclipse will travel from just beneath the Greenland peninsula to the Arctic Circle.
article_snippet: The left-hand animation shows the totality of the 1999 eclipse.
article_snippet: The left-hand animation shows how the shadow created by the eclipse on 20 March will travel over Europe .
article_snippet: On 20 March, the moon's orbit will see the moon's orbit travel in front of the sun, casting a shadow over Earth.
article_snippet: Timeings will vary, so that in London, the partial eclipse - when the moon starts touching the sun's edge - will begin at 8.24am.
article_snippet: The  eclipse will peak at 9.31am and this will be the point when the moon is closest to the centre of the sun.
article_snippet: By 10.41am, the moon will leave the sun's edge and the partial eclipse will end.
article_snippet: On the morning of the 20 March the moon's orbit will see the moon's orbit travel in front of the sun casting a shadow over Earth - and The solar eclipse will be the biggest event of the moon's orbit kind since 11 August 1999 (pictured over Germany)
article_snippet: The last solar eclipse of a similar size took place on 11 August 1999 and had an eclipse magnitude of 1.029.
article_snippet: An eclipse magnitude is the fraction of the sun’s diameter obscured by the moon.
article_snippet: An eclipse magnitude is based on a ratio of diameters and differs from an eclipse obscuration, which is a measure of the sun’s surface area covered by the moon.
article_snippet: The value given is taken at the moment when The solar eclipse is at is maximum.
article_snippet: The maximum of two minutes and 23 seconds of totality for the 1999 eclipse occurred close to Ramnicu Valcea in Romania.
article_snippet: It was said to have been the first total eclipse visible in Europe since 22 July 1990, and the first visible in the UK since 29 June 1927.
article_snippet: What’s more, lunar perigee - the time in the Lunar month when the Earth and the Moon are closest together - will occur the evening before the eclipse.
article_snippet: This makes our 2015 Spring Equinox eclipse a ‘supermoon’ eclipse - perhaps our should call that a supereclipse. '
article_snippet: Nevertheless, this’s nice to have a supermoon, equinox and eclipse all falling on the same day. '