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Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 (1452 Jun 13 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 (1452 Jun 13 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 -1451 Jun 13 at 06:19:02 TD (20:51:57 UT1). This is 0.1 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Gemini. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -41725.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 4 and is number 72 of 72 eclipses in the series. Thus, the -1451 Jun 13 event is the last eclipse of 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 0.0669, while Gamma has a value of 1.4928.
The partial solar eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse on -1451 Jun 28.
Another solar eclipse occurs one synodic month after the -1451 Jun 13 eclipse. It is the partial solar eclipse of -1451 Jul 12.
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 34025.0 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1748.5 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 7.31°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Circumstances Table: Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 4 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Solar Eclipse of -1451 Jun 13 .