A Rare Eclipse of the Midnight Sun – NASA Science
"It might sound like a contradiction to have a solar eclipse in the middle of the night, but this is what we will see in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland on June 1st," says Knut Joergen Roed Oedegaard, an astrophysicist at the Norwegian Centre for Science Education in Oslo.
A previous "midnight Sun" eclipse photographed by Oddleiv Skilbrei in northern Sweden on July 31, 2000. The eclipse of June 1, 2011, will be more than twice as deep.
A Rare Eclipse of the Midnight Sun – NASA Science
The Sky This Week, 2011 May 31 – June 6 — Naval Oceanography Portal
The New Moon that occurs on June 1st will have an unusual twist this year since it will produce a partial solar eclipse that’s best seen from the arctic regions. The only portion of the U.S. that will see it will be the northern half of Alaska, with the greatest coverage of about 20% of the Sun visible from Point Barrow. Across the pole, residents of extreme northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and western Siberia will see about 60% of the Sun obscured as Old Sol skirts the horizon at local midnight!
The Sky This Week, 2011 May 31 – June 6 — Naval Oceanography Portal