Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001

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Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001
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Totality from Lusaka, Zambia by the Williams College eclipse expedition
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma −0.5701
Magnitude 1.0495
Maximum eclipse
Duration297 sec (4 m 57 s)
Coordinates 11°18′S2°42′E / 11.3°S 2.7°E / -11.3; 2.7
Max. width of band200 km (120 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin9:33:04
(U1) Total begin10:35:59
Greatest eclipse12:04:46
(U4) Total end13:31:37
(P4) Partial end14:35:25
References
Saros 127 (57 of 82)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9511

A total solar eclipse took place on June 21, 2001, with a magnitude of 1.0495. It was the first solar eclipse of the 21st century. 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. Occurring 2.2 days before perigee (June 23, 2001), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. Depending on the zone it, could be seen June 20–22

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Visibility

It was visible from a narrow corridor in the southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Africa, including Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the southern tip of Malawi, and Madagascar. A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including eastern South America and most of Africa.

Images

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Eclipses of 2001

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Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 127

Inex

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. [1]

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
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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
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Totality from Woomera
2002 December 04
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Total
−0.30204
147
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Culloden, Scotland
2003 May 31
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Annular
0.99598152 2003 November 23
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Total
−0.96381

Saros 127

It is a part of Saros cycle 127, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 82 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 10, 991 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 14, 1352 through August 15, 2091. There are no annular eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 82 as a partial eclipse on March 21, 2452. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 40 seconds on August 30, 1532. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node. [2]

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200
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April 28, 1911
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May 9, 1929
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May 20, 1947
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May 30, 1965
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June 11, 1983
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June 21, 2001
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July 2, 2019
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July 13, 2037
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July 24, 2055
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August 3, 2073
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August 15, 2091
August 26, 2109 (Partial)
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September 6, 2127 (PartialSeptember 16, 2145 (Partial)September 28, 2163 (Partial)
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October 8, 2181 (Partial)October 19, 2199 (Partial)

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.

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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058
June 21April 8–9January 26November 13–14September 1–2
107109111113115
June 21, 1963April 9, 1967January 26, 1971November 14, 1974September 2, 1978
117119121123125
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June 21, 1982
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April 9, 1986
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January 26, 1990
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November 13, 1993
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September 2, 1997
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June 21, 2001
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April 8, 2005
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January 26, 2009
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November 13, 2012
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September 1, 2016
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June 21, 2020
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April 8, 2024
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January 26, 2028
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November 14, 2031
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September 2, 2035
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June 21, 2039
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April 9, 2043
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January 26, 2047
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November 14, 2050
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September 2, 2054
157
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June 21, 2058

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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