A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, August 11, 1999,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0286.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into night.

Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth’s surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

The path of the Moon's shadow began in the Atlantic Ocean and was later traversing the southern United Kingdom and part of the British crown dependency Guernsey, northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, southern Germany, Austria, extreme northeastern tip of Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and northern FR Yugoslavia (Vojvodina).

The eclipse's maximum was at 11:03 UTC at 45°06′N 24°18′E / 45.1°N 24.3°E / 45.1; 24.3 in Romania[3][4][5] and it continued across Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Turkey, the northeastern tip of Syria, northern Iraq, Iran, southern Pakistan and Srikakulam in India and ended in the Bay of Bengal.

Some of the organized eclipse-watching parties along the path of totality set up video projectors on which people could watch the moon's shadow as it raced towards them.

Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee).