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Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 (1707 Mar 16 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 (1707 Mar 16 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 -1706 Mar 16 at 17:04:26 TD (06:05:19 UT1). This is 3.6 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Aries. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -44882.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 12 and is number 54 of 86 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 annular solar eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1706 Mar 01, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1706 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 39547.6 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 2588.8 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 10.82°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 12 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -1706 Mar 16 .