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Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 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 0084 Dec 16 at 06:16:23 TD (03:34:56 UT1). This is 0.5 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 -22733.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 72 and is number 46 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 0084 Dec 16 is a relatively long total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 04m10s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0451.
The total solar eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 0084 Dec 30.
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 9687.0 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 240.8 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.01°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 72 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 0084 Dec 16 .