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Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 (0857 Jan 09 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 (0857 Jan 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 -0856 Jan 09 at 00:46:16 TD (18:26:47 UT1). This is 4.3 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Capricornus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -34371.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 37 and is number 53 of 73 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 -0856 Jan 09 is a relatively long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 06m14s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9392.
The annular solar eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -0856 Jan 24.
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 22769.5 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 567.3 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 2.37°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 37 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -0856 Jan 09 .