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Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 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 1522 Mar 27 at 21:22:57 TD (21:20:04 UT1). This is 3.2 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Aries. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -4956.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 131 and is number 23 of 70 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.
The solar eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 is a very short total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 00m26s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0076.
The total solar eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on 1522 Mar 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 173.3 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 131 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 1522 Mar 27 .