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Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 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 2444 Sep 12 at 17:35:34 TD (17:19:40 UT1). This is 0.2 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Leo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 6453.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 161 and is number 16 of 72 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 2444 Sep 12 is a relatively long total eclipse with a duration at greatest eclipse of 05m24s. It has an eclipse magnitude of 1.0688.
The total solar eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 is preceded two weeks earlier by a partial lunar eclipse on 2444 Aug 28.
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 954.5 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 244.8 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 1.02°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 161 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 2444 Sep 12 .