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Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 (0803 Aug 06 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 (0803 Aug 06 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 -0802 Aug 06 at 13:58:29 TD (07:54:19 UT1). This is 4.6 days before the Moon reaches perigee. 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 -33696.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 42 and is number 44 of 72 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 solar eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 is one of the rare hybrid solar eclipses. In this particular case the eclipse path starts out as annular. Further down the track it changes to total and then back to annular before the path ends.
The hybrid solar eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on -0802 Aug 20.
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 21849.2 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 546.5 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 2.28°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 42 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Hybrid Solar Eclipse of -0802 Aug 06 .