Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001

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Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
Annular eclipse
Partial solar eclipse December 14 2001 Minneapolis.jpg
Partial from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Map
Gamma 0.4089
Magnitude 0.9681
Maximum eclipse
Duration233 s (3 min 53 s)
Coordinates 0°36′N130°42′W / 0.6°N 130.7°W / 0.6; -130.7
Max. width of band126 km (78 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:53:01
References
Saros 132 (45 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9512

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, December 14, 2001, [1] [2] [3] [4] with a magnitude of 0.9681. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 7.9 days after perigee (on December 6, 2001, at 22:40 UTC) and 6.7 days before apogee (on December 21, 2001, at 13:00 UTC). [5]

Contents

Annularity was visible across the Pacific Ocean, southern Costa Rica, northern Nicaragua and San Andrés Island, Colombia. The central shadow passed just south of Hawaii in early morning and ended over Central America near sunset. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of North America, Central America, northwestern South America, and Hawaii.

Observation

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Animated path

The path of annularity was mostly on the sea, so observers were concentrated in Central America, the only land covered by the path, especially in Costa Rica with the largest area covered by the path and highest solar zenith angle. However, it was cloudy or rainy in many parts of the country during the eclipse, and only a few observers saw the annular eclipse. [6] The International Occultation Timing Association made up of scientists from different countries planned to measure the diameter of the Sun with Baily's beads that appeared at the moment of the second and third contacts in Santa Rosa National Park on the northern edge of the path of annularity, but failed. [7] A team of professors from the University of Costa Rica and abroad traveled to Ostional Mixed Wildlife Refuge, kilometres north of Nosara. The Sun could be seen through the clouds after the eclipse started, but it was completely clouded out when 80% was blocked by the Moon. All the stages after that, including the annularity, could not be seen. [8]

Coincidentally, the 2001 Geminids peaked in the early morning of December 14 local time, less than 24 hours before the annular solar eclipse. [7]

Eclipse timing

Places experiencing annular eclipse

Solar Eclipse of December 14, 2001
(Local Times)
Country or territoryCity or placeStart of partial eclipseStart of annular eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of annular eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of annularity (min:s)Duration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Liberia 15:11:3916:30:4216:32:0216:33:2217:21:53 (sunset)2:402:1091.50%
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Alajuela 15:13:4416:31:5716:32:5516:33:5317:18:05 (sunset)1:562:0491.44%
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica San José 15:13:5816:32:3916:33:0016:33:2317:17:42 (sunset)0:442:0491.44%
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia San Andrés 16:16:1717:32:4517:33:1317:33:4118:03:25 (sunset)0:561:4791.27%
References: [1]

Places experiencing partial eclipse

Solar Eclipse of December 14, 2001
(Local Times)
Country or territoryCity or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage
Flag of the United States (Web Colors).svg  United States Minor Outlying Islands Midway Atoll 07:33:23 (sunrise)08:11:1009:27:121:5490.45%
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Honolulu 08:08:0609:26:5411:00:472:5378.80%
Flag of Kiribati.svg  Kiribati Kiritimati [a] 08:20:3409:39:1311:13:212:5354.61%
Flag of French Polynesia.svg  French Polynesia Taioha'e 09:26:1411:03:2512:49:543:2453.50%
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Washington, D.C. 16:12:5816:43:3616:46:51 (sunset)0:3415.76%
Flag of France.svg Clipperton Island Clipperton Island 12:11:0813:58:2915:26:123:1565.93%
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 17:24:1718:03:0018:05:31 (sunset)0:4142.30%
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg  Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Harbour 16:21:4717:03:2717:06:02 (sunset)0:4444.50%
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela Caracas 17:31:1618:05:2918:07:55 (sunset)0:3735.06%
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg  Turks and Caicos Islands Providenciales 16:21:1317:05:4517:08:21 (sunset)0:4747.94%
Flag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao Willemstad 17:28:4718:10:4218:13:14 (sunset)0:4446.96%
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti Port-au-Prince 16:22:4317:12:2717:14:59 (sunset)0:5258.20%
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Mexico City 14:44:5316:12:5417:26:202:4148.92%
Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba Oranjestad 17:27:4518:14:2518:16:52 (sunset)0:4954.34%
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Nassau 16:16:3117:19:1617:21:57 (sunset)1:0556.96%
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela Maracaibo 17:27:4518:23:5518:26:33 (sunset)0:5966.41%
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Havana 16:12:3417:26:2417:46:04 (sunset)1:3458.39%
Flag of Belize.svg  Belize Belmopan 15:04:5916:26:3117:23:11 (sunset)2:1867.79%
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala Guatemala City 15:02:1116:26:3217:35:07 (sunset)2:3373.73%
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador San Salvador 15:04:4116:28:0917:31:25 (sunset)2:2778.45%
Flag of Honduras (2022-).svg  Honduras Tegucigalpa 15:07:5716:29:2817:22:44 (sunset)2:1579.89%
Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg  Cayman Islands George Town 16:14:3017:29:4717:49:42 (sunset)1:3571.35%
Flag of the United States (Web Colors).svg  United States Minor Outlying Islands Galápagos Islands 15:09:1616:30:2217:38:372:2964.34%
Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua Managua 15:09:5416:30:5817:22:28 (sunset)2:1387.39%
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Kingston 16:19:2917:31:1817:33:50 (sunset)1:1481.60%
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Limón 15:15:2916:33:3117:13:23 (sunset)1:5890.68%
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama Panama City 16:20:3917:35:0918:01:06 (sunset)1:4082.71%
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Barranquilla 16:24:4517:35:3817:38:42 (sunset)1:1482.33%
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador Quito 16:28:0417:36:0718:12:59 (sunset)1:4550.82%
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Bogotá 16:29:4117:36:5617:46:57 (sunset)1:1760.14%
References: [1]

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of December 2001
December 14
Descending node (new moon)
 December 30
Ascending node (full moon)
SE2001Dec14A.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2001Dec30.png
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 132		 Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 144

Eclipses in 2001

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 132

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2000–2003

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. [9]

The partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
117 July 1, 2000
SE2000Jul01P.png
Partial		−1.28214122
2000-12-25-partial solar eclipse Minnesota TLR.jpg
Partial projection in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		December 25, 2000
SE2000Dec25P.png
Partial		1.13669
127
Williams College wl.jpg
Totality in Lusaka, Zambia 		June 21, 2001
SE2001Jun21T.png
Total		−0.57013132
Partial solar eclipse December 14 2001 Minneapolis.jpg
Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		December 14, 2001
SE2001Dec14A.png
Annular		0.40885
137
Gregmote - 20020610 002 (by).jpg
Partial in Los Angeles, CA, USA 		June 10, 2002
SE2002Jun10A.png
Annular		0.19933142
Eclipse 4-12-2002 Woomera.jpg
Totality in Woomera, South Australia 		December 4, 2002
SE2002Dec04T.png
Total		−0.30204
147
Annular 2003-05-31 Culloden.png
Annularity in Culloden, Scotland 		May 31, 2003
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Annular		0.99598152
ECLIPSE LUNAR (3254112650).jpg 		November 23, 2003
SE2003Nov23T.png
Total		−0.96381

Saros 132

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146; hybrid eclipses on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2182; and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 25 at 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [10]

Series members 34–56 occur between 1801 and 2200:
343536
SE1803Aug17A.png
August 17, 1803 		SE1821Aug27A.png
August 27, 1821		 SE1839Sep07A.png
September 7, 1839
373839
SE1857Sep18A.png
September 18, 1857		 SE1875Sep29A.png
September 29, 1875		 SE1893Oct09A.png
October 9, 1893
404142
SE1911Oct22A.png
October 22, 1911 		SE1929Nov01A.png
November 1, 1929 		SE1947Nov12A.png
November 12, 1947
434445
SE1965Nov23A.png
November 23, 1965 		SE1983Dec04A.png
December 4, 1983 		SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001
464748
SE2019Dec26A.png
December 26, 2019 		SE2038Jan05A.png
January 5, 2038 		SE2056Jan16A.png
January 16, 2056
495051
SE2074Jan27A.png
January 27, 2074 		SE2092Feb07A.png
February 7, 2092 		SE2110Feb18A.png
February 18, 2110
525354
SE2128Mar01A.png
March 1, 2128		 SE2146Mar12A.png
March 12, 2146		 SE2164Mar23H.png
March 23, 2164
5556
SE2182Apr03H.png
April 3, 2182		 SE2200Apr14T.png
April 14, 2200

Metonic series

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 descending node.

21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 22May 9–11February 26–27December 14–15October 2–3
116118120122124
SE1971Jul22P.png
July 22, 1971 		SE1975May11P.png
May 11, 1975 		SE1979Feb26T.png
February 26, 1979 		SE1982Dec15P.png
December 15, 1982 		SE1986Oct03H.png
October 3, 1986
126128130132134
SE1990Jul22T.png
July 22, 1990 		SE1994May10A.png
May 10, 1994 		SE1998Feb26T.png
February 26, 1998 		SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001 		SE2005Oct03A.png
October 3, 2005
136138140142144
SE2009Jul22T.png
July 22, 2009 		SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013 		SE2017Feb26A.png
February 26, 2017 		SE2020Dec14T.png
December 14, 2020 		SE2024Oct02A.png
October 2, 2024
146148150152154
SE2028Jul22T.png
July 22, 2028 		SE2032May09A.png
May 9, 2032 		SE2036Feb27P.png
February 27, 2036 		SE2039Dec15T.png
December 15, 2039 		SE2043Oct03A.png
October 3, 2043
156
SE2047Jul22P.png
July 22, 2047

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
SE1805Jun26P.gif
June 26, 1805
(Saros 114)		 SE1816May27A.gif
May 27, 1816
(Saros 115)		 SE1827Apr26A.gif
April 26, 1827
(Saros 116)		 SE1838Mar25T.gif
March 25, 1838
(Saros 117)		 SE1849Feb23A.gif
February 23, 1849
(Saros 118)
SE1860Jan23A.png
January 23, 1860
(Saros 119)		 SE1870Dec22T.png
December 22, 1870
(Saros 120)		 SE1881Nov21A.gif
November 21, 1881
(Saros 121)		 SE1892Oct20P.gif
October 20, 1892
(Saros 122)		 SE1903Sep21T.png
September 21, 1903
(Saros 123)
SE1914Aug21T.png
August 21, 1914
(Saros 124)		 SE1925Jul20A.png
July 20, 1925
(Saros 125)		 SE1936Jun19T.png
June 19, 1936
(Saros 126)		 SE1947May20T.png
May 20, 1947
(Saros 127)		 SE1958Apr19A.png
April 19, 1958
(Saros 128)
SE1969Mar18A.png
March 18, 1969
(Saros 129)		 SE1980Feb16T.png
February 16, 1980
(Saros 130)		 SE1991Jan15A.png
January 15, 1991
(Saros 131)		 SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001
(Saros 132)		 SE2012Nov13T.png
November 13, 2012
(Saros 133)
SE2023Oct14A.png
October 14, 2023
(Saros 134)		 SE2034Sep12A.png
September 12, 2034
(Saros 135)		 SE2045Aug12T.png
August 12, 2045
(Saros 136)		 SE2056Jul12A.png
July 12, 2056
(Saros 137)		 SE2067Jun11A.png
June 11, 2067
(Saros 138)
SE2078May11T.png
May 11, 2078
(Saros 139)		 SE2089Apr10A.png
April 10, 2089
(Saros 140)		 SE2100Mar10A.png
March 10, 2100
(Saros 141)		 SE2111Feb08T.png
February 8, 2111
(Saros 142)		 SE2122Jan08A.png
January 8, 2122
(Saros 143)
SE2132Dec07A.png
December 7, 2132
(Saros 144)		 SE2143Nov07T.png
November 7, 2143
(Saros 145)		 SE2154Oct07T.png
October 7, 2154
(Saros 146)		 Saros147 31van80 SE2165Sep05A.jpg
September 5, 2165
(Saros 147)		 Saros148 30van75 SE2176Aug04T.jpg
August 4, 2176
(Saros 148)
Saros149 30van71 SE2187Jul06T.jpg
July 6, 2187
(Saros 149)		 Saros150 27van71 SE2198Jun04A.jpg
June 4, 2198
(Saros 150)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
Saros126 37van72 SE1828Apr14H.jpg
April 14, 1828
(Saros 126)		 SE1857Mar25T.png
March 25, 1857
(Saros 127)		 SE1886Mar05A.gif
March 5, 1886
(Saros 128)
SE1915Feb14A.png
February 14, 1915
(Saros 129)		 SE1944Jan25T.png
January 25, 1944
(Saros 130)		 SE1973Jan04A.png
January 4, 1973
(Saros 131)
SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001
(Saros 132)		 SE2030Nov25T.png
November 25, 2030
(Saros 133)		 SE2059Nov05A.png
November 5, 2059
(Saros 134)
SE2088Oct14A.png
October 14, 2088
(Saros 135)		 SE2117Sep26T.png
September 26, 2117
(Saros 136)		 SE2146Sep06A.png
September 6, 2146
(Saros 137)
SE2175Aug16A.png
August 16, 2175
(Saros 138)

Notes

  1. ↑ The times listed for this location occur on December 15, 2001, local time.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "December 14, 2001 Annular Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Eclipse anular". La Prensa. 2001-12-09. p. 71. Retrieved 2023-10-25– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Moon shadow". South Florida Sun Sentinel. 2001-12-15. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-10-25– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Hawaii, Costa Rica had best views". The Orlando Sentinel. 2001-12-15. p. 35. Retrieved 2023-10-25– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  6. ↑ Paul Maley. "2001 Annular Solar Eclipse in Costa Rica". Eclipse Tours. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Eclipse Expedition to Costa Rica 2001". Argelander-Instituts für Astronomie. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013.
  8. ↑ Jay M. Pasachoff. "Costa Rica Annular Eclipse Trip". ICSTARS Astronomy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 132". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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