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Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 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 2396 Apr 09 at 02:33:16 TD (02:20:15 UT1). This is 0.4 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Pisces. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 5854.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 145 and is number 43 of 77 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 2396 Apr 09 is a relatively long total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 05m12s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0625.
The total solar eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 2396 Mar 25, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 2396 Apr 24.
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 781.4 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 202.9 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 0.85°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 145 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 2396 Apr 09 .