Today’s Solar Eclipse Over Kiruna
This evening, Sweden witnessed one of the most significant solar eclipses in decades, a partial solar eclipse that was part of a larger total solar eclipse sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere, from Greenland and Iceland to the Iberian Peninsula, where it appeared as a full total eclipse.
In Sweden, the eclipse was visible everywhere as a partial eclipse, with the Moon covering roughly 80–85% of the Sun’s disc depending on location. Kiruna, being the northernmost major town in Sweden, saw one of the deepest partial eclipses in the country.
Timeline for Kiruna:
Start: 18:48 CEST
Maximum eclipse: 19:42 CEST — around 82% of the Sun’s surface area was covered (roughly 85% of the Sun’s diameter obscured)
End: 20:34 CEST
The eclipse arrived first in northern Sweden and moved south, with Kiruna and Östersund seeing among the largest coverage percentages in the country — slightly ahead of Stockholm (~81% at 19:56 CEST) and just behind Malmö and Gothenburg in the south (~83%).
I managed to capture a photo right at the moment of maximum eclipse, 19:42 CEST, which you can see below.
Photo taken with Fujifilm GFX 100s and GF45mm f2.8 and proper filters.
