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Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 (1398 Aug 14 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 (1398 Aug 14 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 -1397 Aug 14 at 12:44:56 TD (03:36:30 UT1). This is 0.5 days after the Moon reaches perigee. 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 -41055.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 42 and is number 11 of 72 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.
The solar eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 is a relatively long total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 04m22s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0554.
The total solar eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 is preceded two weeks earlier by a partial lunar eclipse on -1397 Jul 30.
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 32906.4 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1588.5 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 6.64°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 42 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of -1397 Aug 14 .