Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006

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Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
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Partial from São Paulo, Brazil
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Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma -0.4062
Magnitude 0.9352
Maximum eclipse
Duration429 sec (7 m 9 s)
Coordinates 20°36′S9°06′W / 20.6°S 9.1°W / -20.6; -9.1
Max. width of band261 km (162 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse11:41:16
References
Saros 144 (16 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9522

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on September 22, 2006. 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 path of annularity of this eclipse passed through Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, the northern tip of Roraima and Amapá of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic.

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The exact time of the greatest eclipse took place on Friday, September 22, 2006, at 11:40:11.4 a.m. UTC, but occurring only about 6 1/2 hours after apogee (Apogee on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 05:19 a.m. UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was 6.6% smaller than average, and the Moon's distance from the Earth was only 406,477 km (252,573 mi).

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Animated path

Eclipses of 2006

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 144

Solar eclipses 2004–2007

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2004–2007
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
119 2004 April 19
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Partial (south)
-1.13345124 2004 October 14
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Partial (north)
1.03481
129
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Partial from Naiguatá
2005 April 08
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Hybrid
-0.34733134
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Annular from Madrid, Spain
2005 October 03
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Annular
0.33058
139
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Total from Side, Turkey
2006 March 29
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Total
0.38433144
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Partial from São Paulo, Brazil
2006 September 22
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Annular
-0.40624
149
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From Jaipur, India
2007 March 19
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Partial (north)
1.07277154
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From Córdoba, Argentina
2007 September 11
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Partial (south)
-1.12552

Saros 144

It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880 through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.

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.

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, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12April 29–30February 15–16December 4–5September 21–23
116118120122124
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July 11, 1953
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April 30, 1957
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February 15, 1961
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December 4, 1964
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September 22, 1968
126128130132134
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July 10, 1972
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April 29, 1976
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February 16, 1980
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December 4, 1983
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September 23, 1987
136138140142144
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July 11, 1991
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April 29, 1995
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February 16, 1999
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December 4, 2002
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September 22, 2006
146148150152154
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July 11, 2010
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April 29, 2014
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February 15, 2018
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December 4, 2021
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September 21, 2025
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July 11, 2029

Eclipse season

This is the second eclipse this season, the first being the 7 September 2006 Partial Lunar Eclipse.

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References

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