Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002

Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002
classification
Type	Ring-shaped
area	Eastern Asia , Pacific , Australia , western North America Annular: North Pacific , western Mexico
Saros cycle	137 (35 of 70)
Gamma value	0.1994
Greatest eclipse
Duration	23 seconds
place	north pacific
location	34 ° 33 ′  N , 178 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 33 ′  N , 178 ° 38 ′  W
time	June 10, 2002 23:44:20   UT
size	0.9962

The annular solar eclipse on June 10, 2002 mainly took place in the Pacific north of the equator. The duration of the ring-shaped phase in the middle of the eclipse was only 23 seconds and was therefore extremely short. This was because the moon's apparent diameter was only slightly smaller than that of the sun. The eclipse was almost total at the time of the greatest occultation, so the edge visible from the sun around the moon was extremely narrow.

course

The annular phase began in Indonesia in the far north of Sulawesi on the morning of June 11th (local time). The zone of ring-shaped visibility then swept over the Sangihen and the Talaud Islands , before the further ring-shaped eclipse phase ran predominantly over the open sea of ​​the Pacific.

Shortly before the maximum, the shadow path crossed the date line , so that the maximum and the second half of the eclipse took place on June 10th according to local time, i.e. one Universal Time day earlier than at the beginning.

The zone with ring-shaped visibility just reached Mexico , so that in large parts of Central and North America the eclipse could be seen as partial eclipse during sunset .

literature

• Hans-Ulrich Keller (Ed.): Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2002 . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08527-9 .

Web links

Commons : Solar eclipse of June 10th, 2002  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• solar-eclipse.de: The annular solar eclipse of June 10th, 2002
• NASA: Total Solar Eclipse of 2002 Jun 10
• Solar Eclipses of Saros 137