Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | −0.9638 |
Magnitude | 1.0379 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 117 s (1 min 57 s) |
Coordinates | 72°42′S 88°24′E / 72.7°S 88.4°E |
Max. width of band | 495 km (308 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 22:50:22 |
References | |
Saros | 152 (12 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9516 |
A total solar eclipse took place on November 23, 2003 with a magnitude of 1.0379. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible from a corridor in the Antarctic region. A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including the southern tip of South America and most of Australia.
For most solar eclipses the path of totality moves eastwards. In this case the path moved south and then west round Antarctica.
Images
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2000-2003
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[1]
The partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
117 | July 1, 2000![]() Partial |
−1.28214 | 122![]() Partial projection in Minneapolis, MN, USA |
December 25, 2000![]() Partial |
1.13669 | |
127![]() Totality in Lusaka, Zambia |
June 21, 2001![]() Total |
−0.57013 | 132![]() Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA |
December 14, 2001![]() Annular |
0.40885 | |
137![]() Partial in Los Angeles, CA, USA |
June 10, 2002![]() Annular |
0.19933 | 142![]() Totality in Woomera, South Australia |
December 4, 2002![]() Total |
−0.30204 | |
147![]() Annularity in Culloden, Scotland |
May 31, 2003![]() Annular |
0.99598 | 152![]() |
November 23, 2003![]() Total |
−0.96381 |
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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011 | ||||
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September 11–12 | June 30–July 1 | April 17–19 | February 4–5 | November 22–23 |
114 | 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 |
![]() September 12, 1931 |
![]() June 30, 1935 |
![]() April 19, 1939 |
![]() February 4, 1943 |
![]() November 23, 1946 |
124 | 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 |
![]() September 12, 1950 |
![]() June 30, 1954 |
![]() April 19, 1958 |
![]() February 5, 1962 |
![]() November 23, 1965 |
134 | 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 |
![]() September 11, 1969 |
![]() June 30, 1973 |
![]() April 18, 1977 |
![]() February 4, 1981 |
![]() November 22, 1984 |
144 | 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 |
![]() September 11, 1988 |
![]() June 30, 1992 |
![]() April 17, 1996 |
![]() February 5, 2000 |
![]() November 23, 2003 |
154 | 156 | |||
![]() September 11, 2007 |
![]() July 1, 2011 |
Notes
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
References
- Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson. "Total Solar Eclipse of 2003 November 23". NASA, July 2003.
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Google Map
Photos:
- Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site. Flight over Antarctica
- Images from Antarctica by Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society
- [1] APOD 8/5/2004, An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
- [2] APOD 11/27/2003, The Long Shadow of the Moon, Total solar eclipse from satellite over Antarctica
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