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Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 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 1662 Sep 12 at 11:50:44 TD (11:50:13 UT1). This is 4.4 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Virgo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -3219.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 129 and is number 32 of 80 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 annular solar eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 1662 Aug 29, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 1662 Sep 27.
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 31.5 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 129 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Annular Solar Eclipse of 1662 Sep 12 .