Annular solar eclipse 147 saros, the maximum phase of which could be observed in Canada, Greenland and Russia. This eclipse was a repetition through the Saros of the annular solar eclipse on May 31, 2003, the strip of which passed through Scotland, Iceland and Greenland, and partial phases were visible in many countries of Europe and Asia. It is also unique in that it could be seen at the North Pole, this is the only annular eclipse passing through this point in the 21st century. The next eclipse of this Saros will occur on June 21, 2039 (!!!).
Partial phases of the eclipse were visible in Europe (except for the south of Italy, the Balkan Peninsula and southern regions of Romania), in a significant part of the territory of the former USSR (except for the southern regions of Moldova and Ukraine, Crimea, the Caucasus, southern regions of Central Asia, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Koryak Autonomous Okrug and southern Chukotka), in Mongolia, in most of China, in Canada (except for its western and southwestern regions), in the northeastern United States, in northern Alaska, in Greenland, throughout the Arctic Ocean and in the northern zone waters of the Atlantic Ocean.