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Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 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 2734 Aug 21 at 02:59:11 TD (02:19:31 UT1). This is 2.2 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Cancer. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 10039.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 176 and is number 8 of 71 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 southern path limit. Instead, one edge of the umbral shadow falls off into space throughout the eclipse. Gamma has a value of -0.9936.
The total solar eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on 2734 Aug 07.
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 2379.1 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 556.3 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 2.32°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 176 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 2734 Aug 21 .