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Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 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 1523 Aug 11 at 04:33:15 TD (04:30:23 UT1). This is 0.3 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Leo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -4939.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 108 and is number 55 of 76 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.
This total eclipse is unsual in that it does NOT have a northern path limit. Instead, one edge of the umbral shadow falls off into space throughout the eclipse. Gamma has a value of 0.9968.
The total solar eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse on 1523 Aug 26.
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 172.0 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 108 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 1523 Aug 11 .