Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009

Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009

Annularity from Bandar Lampung, Indonesia
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Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.282
Magnitude 0.9282
Maximum eclipse
Duration 474 sec (7 m 54 s)
Coordinates 34°06′S 70°12′E / 34.1°S 70.2°E / -34.1; 70.2
Max. width of band 280 km (170 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 7:59:45
References
Saros 131 (50 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9527

An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 26, 2009. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. It had a magnitude of 0.92 and was visible from a narrow corridor beginning in the south Atlantic Ocean and sweep eastward 900 km south of Africa, slowly curving northeast through the Indian Ocean. Its first landfall was in the Cocos Islands followed by southern Sumatra and western Java. It continued somewhat more easterly across central Borneo, across the northwestern edge of Celebes, then ending just before Mindanao, Philippines.[1]

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Solar eclipses 2008-2011

Each member in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Saros 131

It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612.[2]

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).

Notes

  1. ↑ "Eclipses During 2009". NASA. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
  2. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros131.html

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