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Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 (0488 Mar 09 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 (0488 Mar 09 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 -0487 Mar 09 at 09:21:11 TD (04:39:58 UT1). This is 3.1 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Aries. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -29805.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 51 and is number 52 of 85 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 total solar eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -0487 Feb 21, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -0487 Mar 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 16873.3 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 425.7 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.78°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 51 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of -0487 Mar 09 .