Conditions of visibility and various information, data from NASA, elaborated with WinOccult (C)

Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC

                                    GENERAL CIRCUMSTANCES

                                  Date       Ist.(T.U.) Magnit. Duration
   Begins penumbral phase     09/02/2009     12h36m50s
   Max                        09/02/2009     14h38m16s  0.924   04h03m
   Ends penumbral phase       09/02/2009     16h39m21s

Eastern Canada and the USA will miss the eclipse entirely since the eclipse begins after moonset.
Observers in western Canada and the USA will have the best views with moonset occurring sometime
after mid-eclipse. To catch the entire event, one must be in Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, or East Asia.