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Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 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 1666 Jan 05 at 08:58:50 TD (08:58:23 UT1). This is 5.9 days before 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 -3178.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 126 and is number 28 of 72 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 1666 Jan 05 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 1665 Dec 22, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 1666 Jan 20.
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 27.5 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 126 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of 1666 Jan 05 .