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Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 (1643 Sep 21 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 (1643 Sep 21 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 -1642 Sep 21 at 21:09:39 TD (10:34:26 UT1). This is 2.7 days before 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 -44084.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 8 and is number 53 of 73 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 -1642 Sep 21 is one of the rare hybrid solar eclipses. In this particular case the eclipse path starts out as annular. Further down the track it changes to total and then back to annular before the path ends. It is a very short hybrid eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 00m22s. The eclipse magnitude is 1.0057, while Gamma has a value of 0.9209.
The hybrid solar eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse on -1642 Oct 05.
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 38112.5 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 2363.0 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 9.87°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 8 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -1642 Sep 21 .