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Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 (0163 Sep 08 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 (0163 Sep 08 BCE) is visible from the geographic regions shown on the map to the right. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.
The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on -0162 Sep 08 at 20:12:18 TD (16:47:58 UT1). This is 0.7 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Virgo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -25779.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 61 and is number 46 of 71 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.
The solar eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 is a relatively long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 08m39s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9284.
The annular solar eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on -0162 Sep 23.
These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.
The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT). ΔT has a value of 12260.6 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 314.0 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.31°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 61 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -0162 Sep 08 .