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Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 (0199 Aug 18 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 (0199 Aug 18 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 -0198 Aug 18 at 05:59:23 TD (02:27:56 UT1). This is 1.3 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Leo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -26225.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 61 and is number 44 of 71 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons 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 -0198 Aug 18 is a relatively long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 08m28s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9364.
The annular solar eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on -0198 Sep 01.
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 12686.8 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 325.6 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.36°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0198 Aug 18 - 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 -0198 Aug 18 .