Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023

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Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023
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classification
Type Ring-shaped
area North , Central and South America , Eastern Pacific , Western Atlantic
Annular: Southwest USA , Gulf of Mexico , Yucatán , Central America , Colombia , northern Brazil
Saros cycle 134 (44 of 71)
Gamma value +0.3752
Greatest eclipse
Duration 5 minutes 17 seconds
place Caribbean Sea off the coast of Nicaragua
location 11 ° 22 ′  N , 83 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 11 ° 22 ′  N , 83 ° 4 ′  W
time October 14, 2023 5:59:21 PM   UT
size 0.9520
World map of the solar eclipse of October 14, 2023

The annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 takes place largely over North , Central and South America .

The maximum of the eclipse is in Central America , with the place of greatest occultation off the east coast of Nicaragua and the place of the longest duration of the eclipse just off the south coast of Panama . There the duration of the ring-shaped occultation is 5 minutes and 17 seconds, the sun is 66.8 ° above the horizon.

The solar eclipse belongs to the Saros cycle 134 and is the successor to the solar eclipse of October 3, 2005 .

course

The zone of annular visibility first reaches Earth in the eastern Pacific at 146 ° 14 ' west longitude and 49 ° 14' north latitude at 16h 12m UT . On the way to the southeast, the shadow meets the coast of the USA at Coos Bay . The shadow path then crosses the mainland and the American states of Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. It then passes through the western Gulf of Mexico , the Yucatán peninsula and northeastern Honduras , passes the coast of Costa Rica , crosses the Isthmus of Panama west of the Panama Canal and continues across the ocean to Colombia. The shadow moves to the Colombian coast through sparsely populated areas, first over the Andes and then along the Rio Solimões in Brazil, where it only reaches more densely populated areas again in the northeastern states . Here, however, the sun is already very close to the western horizon. The moon's shadow leaves the earth again at 29 ° 46 ′ west longitude and 5 ° 46 ′ south latitude at 19h 46m UT shortly before the Brazilian east coast.

The zone of circular visibility touches many national parks and other protected areas. In the USA Crater Lake , Great Basin , Capitol Reef , Canyonlands and Padre Island , in Panama Santa Fe , Omar Torrijos , Sarigua , in Colombia Uramba , Cordillera de los Picacho , Serranía de la Macarena , Chiribiquete , in Brazil Jaú , Amazônia , Jamanxim , Serra do Pardo .

About 100 km west of the Texas city of Austin , near the town of Vanderpool in Bandera County , is the intersection of the central line of the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 , so that two central solar eclipses can be seen here less than 6 months apart. For Albuquerque , this eclipse is the second annular solar eclipse in 11 years, here the shadow path of the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 is crossed.

Places in the zone of circular visibility

country place Duration Time ( UT ) comment
United States Coos Bay 4m 00s 16h 18m first contact with land
United States Eugene 3m 54s 16h 19m
United States Medford 1m 13s 16h 19m at the edge of the annular zone
United States Electrolytic capacitor 4m 18s 16h 25m
United States Albuquerque 4m 50s 16h 37m
United States Santa Fe 2m 49s 16h 37m at the edge of the annular zone
United States Roswell 4m 41s 16h 41m
United States Odessa 4m 48s 16h 45m
United States Vanderpool 4m 59s 16h 52m Crossing point to the central line of the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
United States San Antonio 4m 24s 16h 54m
United States Corpus Christi 5m 02s 16h 58m
Mexico Campeche 4m 33s 17h 25m
Belize Belize City 5m 11s 17h 34m
Honduras La Ceiba 5m 11s 17h 41m
Honduras Catacamas 5m 15s 17h 45m
Panama Santiago de Veraguas 4m 09s 18h 12m
Colombia Cali 3m 44s 18h 33m
Colombia Neiva 5m 09s 18h 37m
Brazil Araguaína 4m 09s 19h 39m
Brazil Juazeiro do Norte 3m 52s 19h 45m only about 10 ° above the horizon
Brazil Campina Grande 3m 04s 19h 46m only about 7 ° above the horizon
Brazil natal 3m 32s 19h 45m only about 6 ° above the horizon

The cities of Tegucigalpa , Panama City , Bogotá , Manaus, and the northeast coast of Costa Rica are just missed by the zone of circular visibility.

Web links

Commons : Solar eclipse of October 14th, 2023  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fred Espenak: Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035 . Ed .: NASA . 2nd Edition. Sky Publishing, Belmont 1994, ISBN 0-933346-45-X , pp. 121, 225 .
  2. ↑ a b The duration of the totality and the time of the middle of the totality were determined with the interactive map of NASA.