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Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 (1462 Dec 28 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 (1462 Dec 28 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 -1461 Dec 28 at 15:14:39 TD (05:44:17 UT1). This is 3.8 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Capricornus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -41842.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 18 and is number 54 of 73 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 -1461 Dec 28 is an exceptionally long annular eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 09m12s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.9331.
The annular solar eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1460 Jan 11.
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 34222.3 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1777.1 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 7.42°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 18 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of -1461 Dec 28 .