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Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 (1709 May 06 BCE)
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 (1709 May 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 -1708 May 06 at 05:17:41 TD (18:17:52 UT1). This is 0.6 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Taurus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -44905.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 30 and is number 20 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.
The solar eclipse of -1708 May 06 is a relatively long total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 04m22s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0657.
The total solar eclipse of -1708 May 06 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on -1708 Apr 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 39589.3 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 2595.5 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 10.84°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 30 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of -1708 May 06 .