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Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 (0457 Jan 26 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 (0457 Jan 26 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 -0456 Jan 26 at 07:05:58 TD (02:33:35 UT1). This is 3.6 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Aquarius. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -29423.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 72 and is number 16 of 83 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.
This is a very deep partial eclipse. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.5144, while Gamma has a value of -1.2622.
The partial solar eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on -0456 Jan 12.
Another solar eclipse occurs one synodic month before the -0456 Jan 26 eclipse. It is the partial solar eclipse of -0457 Dec 27.
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 16342.6 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 414.4 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.73°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Circumstances Table: Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 72 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Solar Eclipse of -0456 Jan 26 .