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Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 (1578 Apr 28 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 (1578 Apr 28 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 -1577 Apr 28 at 09:27:58 TD (23:16:15 UT1). This is 1.8 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Taurus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -43285.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 42 and is number 1 of 72 eclipses in the series. Thus, the -1577 Apr 28 event is the very first eclipse of 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.
This is an extremely shallow partial eclipse. It has an eclipse magnitude of only 0.0232, while Gamma has a value of -1.5198. This is a very deep partial eclipse. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.0232, while Gamma has a value of -1.5198.
The partial solar eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on -1577 Apr 14.
Another solar eclipse occurs one synodic month before the -1577 Apr 28 eclipse. It is the total solar eclipse of -1577 Mar 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 36702.1 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 2145.9 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 8.97°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Circumstances Table: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 - 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 Partial Solar Eclipse of -1577 Apr 28 .