Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005
| Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 | |
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| classification | |
| Type | Hybrid |
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New Zealand , North and South America Hybrid: South Pacific , Panama , Colombia , Venezuela |
| Saros cycle | 129 (51 of 80) |
| Gamma value | −0.3473 |
| Greatest eclipse | |
| Duration | 0 minutes 42 seconds |
| place | South pacific |
| location | 10 ° 34 ′ S , 118 ° 59 ′ W |
| time | April 8, 2005 20:35:46 UT |
| size | 1.0074 |
The solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 was a hybrid solar eclipse , the rare borderline case between a total and an annular eclipse. It was visible in large areas of the southern Pacific , in some peripheral areas of Antarctica , in Central America and the Caribbean , large parts of South America and in the southern areas of North America. In the USA the eclipse could be observed in its partial phase, from Central Europe however this eclipse was not observable .
The beginning and the end of the darkness were ring-shaped on the central line, in between the darkness was total. At its maximum the totality zone was only 27 kilometers wide, the totality duration was only 42 seconds. This borderline case between total and ring-shaped eclipse occurred because the apparent sun and moon diameters were almost the same on that day, that of the moon was only a little larger.
The central line of the eclipse began east of New Zealand and continued in a northeast direction through the Pacific Ocean . At 108 ° west longitude, the central line changed to the northern hemisphere, at which point the eclipse had already exceeded the maximum. The central line ran through Panama , Colombia and Venezuela , where the ring-shaped phase near the north coast of South America came to an end.
What was curious about this eclipse was that the eclipse began on April 9th and ended on April 8th, as the shadow path crossed the date line in an easterly direction.
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Keller (Ed.): Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2005 . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-440-09792-7
Web links
- solar-eclipse.de: The hybrid solar eclipse of April 8th, 2005
- NASA: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 2005 April 2008
- Solar Eclipses of Saros 129
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Previous solar eclipses:
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Later solar eclipses:
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December 4, 2002 (total) |
May 31, 2003 (circular) |
November 23, 2003 (total) |
April 19, 2004 (partial) |
October 14, 2004 (partial) |
April 8, 2005 (hybrid) |
October 3, 2005 (ring-shaped) |
March 29, 2006 (total) |
September 22, 2006 (ring-shaped) |
March 19, 2007 (partial) |
September 11, 2007 (partial) |
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