Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.5062 |
Magnitude | 1.0286 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 143 s (2 min 23 s) |
Location | Ocnele Mari, Vâlcea County, Romania |
Coordinates | 45°06′N24°18′E / 45.1°N 24.3°E |
Max. width of band | 112 km (70 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 11:04:09 |
References | |
Saros | 145 (21 of 77) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9506 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on 11 August 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.0286. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the sun for a viewer on earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon's apparent diameter is larger than the sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of the moon's shadow began in the Atlantic Ocean and, before noon, was traversing the southern United Kingdom, northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, southern Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and northern FR Yugoslavia (Vojvodina). The eclipse's maximum was at 11:03 UTC at 45°06′N24°18′E / 45.1°N 24.3°E in Romania (next to the town of Ocnele Mari near Râmnicu Vâlcea); [1] [2] [3] and it continued across Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Turkey, the northeastern tip of Syria, northern Iraq, Iran, southern Pakistan and Srikakulam in India and ended in the Bay of Bengal.
It was the first total eclipse visible from Europe since 22 July 1990, and the first visible in the United Kingdom since 29 June 1927.
Because of the high population densities in areas of the path, this was one of the most-viewed total solar eclipses in human history; [4] although some areas in the path of totality (mainly in Western Europe) offered impaired visibility due to adverse weather conditions.
Some of the organized eclipse-watching parties along the path of totality set up video projectors on which people could watch the moon's shadow as it raced towards them. [5] There was substantial coverage on international TV stations of the progress of the eclipse shadow. The moon's shadow was also observed from the Russian Mir space station; during the eclipse, video from Mir was broadcast live on television.
Event | Time (UTC) | Coordinates [10] |
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1st penumbral contact with Earth's surface (P1) | 08:26:17 | |
1st external umbral contact (U1) | 09:29:55 | 41°2.0′N65°5.4′W / 41.0333°N 65.0900°W |
2nd internal umbral contact (U2) | 09:30:53 | 43°0.1′N57°55.8′W / 43.0017°N 57.9300°W |
Greatest eclipse | 11:03:07 | 45°4.8′N24°17.3′E / 45.0800°N 24.2883°E [11] |
3rd internal umbral contact (U3) | 12:35:33 | 19°39.7′N80°20.4′E / 19.6617°N 80.3400°E |
4th external umbral contact (U4) | 12:36:26 | 17°33.5′N87°17.1′E / 17.5583°N 87.2850°E |
4th penumbral contact with Earth's surface (P4) | 13:40:08 |
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. [12]
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120 Chita, Russia | 1997 March 09 Total | 0.91830 | 125 | 1997 September 02 Partial (south) | −1.03521 | |
130 Total eclipse near Guadeloupe | 1998 February 26 Total | 0.23909 | 135 | 1998 August 22 Annular | −0.26441 | |
140 | 1999 February 16 Annular | −0.47260 | 145 Totality from France | 1999 August 11 Total | 0.50623 | |
150 | 2000 February 05 Partial (south) | −1.22325 | 155 | 2000 July 31 Partial (north) | 1.21664 |
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
This solar eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 145, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 77 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on January 4, 1639, and reached a first annular eclipse on June 6, 1891. It was a hybrid event on June 17, 1909, and total eclipses from June 29, 1927, through September 9, 2648. The series ends at member 77 as a partial eclipse on April 17, 3009. The longest eclipse will occur on June 25, 2522, with a maximum duration of totality of 7 minutes, 12 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.
Series members 10–32 occur between 1801 and 2359 | ||
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10 | 11 | 12 |
April 13, 1801 | April 24, 1819 | May 4, 1837 |
13 | 14 | 15 |
May 16, 1855 | May 26, 1873 | June 6, 1891 |
16 | 17 | 18 |
June 17, 1909 | June 29, 1927 | July 9, 1945 |
19 | 20 | 21 |
July 20, 1963 | July 31, 1981 | August 11, 1999 |
22 | 23 | 24 |
August 21, 2017 | September 2, 2035 | September 12, 2053 |
25 | 26 | 27 |
September 23, 2071 | October 4, 2089 | October 16, 2107 |
28 | 29 | 30 |
October 26, 2125 | November 7, 2143 | November 17, 2161 |
31 | 32 | 33 |
November 28, 2179 | December 9, 2197 | December 21, 2215 |
34 | 35 | 36 |
December 31, 2233 | January 12, 2252 | January 22, 2270 |
37 | 38 | 39 |
February 2, 2288 | February 14, 2306 | February 25, 2324 |
40 | ||
March 8, 2342 |
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018 | ||||
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January 4-5 | October 23-24 | August 10-12 | May 30-31 | March 18-19 |
111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
January 5, 1935 | August 12, 1942 | May 30, 1946 | March 18, 1950 | |
121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
January 5, 1954 | October 23, 1957 | August 11, 1961 | May 30, 1965 | March 18, 1969 |
131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
January 4, 1973 | October 23, 1976 | August 10, 1980 | May 30, 1984 | March 18, 1988 |
141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
January 4, 1992 | October 24, 1995 | August 11, 1999 | May 31, 2003 | March 19, 2007 |
151 | 153 | 155 | ||
January 4, 2011 | October 23, 2014 | August 11, 2018 |
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