Solar eclipse of December 25, 2000

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Solar eclipse of December 25, 2000
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Projected partial eclipse from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma 1.1367
Magnitude 0.7228
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 66°18′N74°06′W / 66.3°N 74.1°W / 66.3; -74.1
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse17:35:57
References
Saros 122 (57 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9510

A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 25, 2000, also known as the "Christmas 2000 Solar Eclipse". 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. It is also the last solar eclipse of the 20th century.

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Christmas

This is the first Solar Eclipse on Christmas day since the annular solar eclipse of 1954. [1]

Images

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Animated path

Eclipses of 2000

Solar eclipses 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. [2]

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

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000–2003
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
117 2000 July 01
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Partial (south)		−1.28214122 2000 December 25
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Partial (north)		1.13669
127
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Totality from Lusaka, Zambia 		2001 June 21
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Total		−0.57013132
Partial solar eclipse December 14 2001 Minneapolis.jpg
Partial from Minneapolis, MN 		2001 December 14
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Annular		0.40885
137
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Partial from Los Angeles, CA 		2002 June 10
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Annular		0.19933142
Eclipse 4-12-2002 Woomera.jpg
Totality from Woomera 		2002 December 04
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Total		−0.30204
147
Annular 2003-05-31 Culloden.png
Culloden, Scotland 		2003 May 31
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Annular		0.99598152 2003 November 23
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Total		−0.96381

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. [3]

Octon series with 21 events between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065
May 20–21March 8–9December 25–26October 13–14August 1–2
98100102104106
May 21, 1955March 9, 1959December 26, 1962October 14, 1966August 2, 1970
108110112114116
May 21, 1974March 9, 1978December 26, 1981October 14, 1985August 1, 1989
118120122124126
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May 21, 1993 		SE1997Mar09T.png
March 9, 1997 		SE2000Dec25P.png
December 25, 2000 		SE2004Oct14P.png
October 14, 2004 		SE2008Aug01T.png
August 1, 2008
128130132134136
SE2012May20A.png
May 20, 2012 		SE2016Mar09T.png
March 9, 2016 		SE2019Dec26A.png
December 26, 2019 		SE2023Oct14A.png
October 14, 2023 		SE2027Aug02T.png
August 2, 2027
138140142144146
SE2031May21A.png
May 21, 2031 		SE2035Mar09A.png
March 9, 2035 		SE2038Dec26T.png
December 26, 2038 		SE2042Oct14A.png
October 14, 2042 		SE2046Aug02T.png
August 2, 2046
148150152154156
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May 20, 2050 		SE2054Mar09P.png
March 9, 2054 		SE2057Dec26T.png
December 26, 2057 		SE2061Oct13A.png
October 13, 2061 		SE2065Aug02P.png
August 2, 2065
158160162164166
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May 20, 2069 		March 8, 2073December 26, 2076October 13, 2080August 1, 2084

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References

  1. ↑ Espenak, Fred. "Partial Solar Eclipse of December 25, 2000". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  2. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Note S1: Eclipses & Predictions in Freeth, Tony (2014). "Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism". PLOS ONE. 9 (7): e103275. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j3275F. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103275 . PMC   4116162 . PMID   25075747.
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