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Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 (1217 Nov 19 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 (1217 Nov 19 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 -1216 Nov 19 at 17:05:13 TD (08:56:54 UT1). This is 2.7 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Sagittarius. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -38813.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 52 and is number 10 of 86 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 0.2462, while Gamma has a value of -1.4103.
The partial solar eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on -1216 Nov 04.
Another solar eclipse occurs one synodic month before the -1216 Nov 19 eclipse. It is the partial solar eclipse of -1216 Oct 21.
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 29298.9 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1101.3 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 4.60°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Circumstances Table: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 52 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Solar Eclipse of -1216 Nov 19 .