How long will the eclipse last?
The entire eclipse will be over two and a half hours from the beginning to the end of the partial phases. Totality, when all the excitement happens, will be 5 minute 53 seconds at our chosen site. This is quite long, as eclipses go, but it will go by very quickly, and it will seem considerably shorter in all the excitement. Jinshanwei: Latitude +30 deg, 43.3 min. Longitude 121 deg, 18.9 min. E. Eclipse timings: 1st contact: 8:23:04 a.m. Partial eclipse begins 2nd contact: 9:36:08 Totality begins 3rd contact: 9:42:01 Totality ends 4th contact: 11:01:40 Partial eclipse ends Sun altitude at mid-eclipse: 57 degrees. Azimuth: 101 degrees All times are local time in Shanghai. China does not observe “Daylight Savings.
