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Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 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 2894 Dec 18 at 06:49:23 TD (05:51:51 UT1). This is 4.7 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Ophiuchus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 12022.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 156 and is number 50 of 69 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 solar eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 is a relatively long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 07m20s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9350.
The annular solar eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on 2895 Jan 02.
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 3452.7 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 770.7 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 3.22°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 156 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2894 Dec 18 .