Article Posted on : - May 30, 2011

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WASHINGTON (BNS): The sky will twinkle with three eclipses in the coming months.

Two partial solar eclipses will appear within a gap of one month and a total lunar eclipse will occur in between the solar eclipses.

It is estimated that the eclipse will happen near midsummer in the high Arctic, the land of the midnight Sun. By June 1st or 2nd the eclipses will be visible in the northernmost reaches of North America, Europe, and Asia.

According to Space.com, the eclipse will begin on Thursday, June 2, at dawn in northern China and Siberia, then will move across the Arctic, crossing the International Date Line and ending in the early evening of Wednesday, June 1, in northeastern Canada.

Observers from northern Russia and Scandinavia will be observing it over the North Pole. They will actually see it in what is, for them, the middle of the night of June 1st and 2nd.

After a month, the next eclipse will occur on Friday, July 1, in the Antarctic.

It is expected that the eclipse will be only visible in a small area of the Southern Ocean, far to the south of South Africa.

Exactly halfway in between these two partial solar eclipses, there will be a total eclipse of the Moon on Wednesday, June 15.

The total lunar eclipse will be visible for millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and southwestern Asia, South America and Europe, and as the Moon sets before dawn in eastern Asia and Australia, the website reported.