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Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 (0003 Aug 10 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 (0003 Aug 10 BCE) is visible from the geographic regions shown on the map to the right. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.
The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on -0002 Aug 10 at 23:25:52 TD (20:30:15 UT1). This is 4.4 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Leo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -23801.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 74 and is number 35 of 75 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.
The annular solar eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -0002 Jul 27, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -0002 Aug 26.
These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.
The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT). ΔT has a value of 10537.1 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 265.4 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.11°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 74 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -0002 Aug 10 .