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Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 (1675 Dec 13 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 (1675 Dec 13 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 -1674 Dec 13 at 14:08:45 TD (03:21:49 UT1). This is 4.8 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Sagittarius. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -44477.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 15 and is number 50 of 75 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 -1674 Dec 13 is a relatively long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 07m04s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9423.
The annular solar eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1674 Nov 28, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1674 Dec 27.
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 38815.9 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 2473.1 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 10.33°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 15 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -1674 Dec 13 .