Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

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Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012
Animation of the eclipse of November 13, 2012, time given in Universal Time (UT)
Animation of the eclipse of November 13, 2012, time given in Universal Time (UT)
classification
Type Total
area Australia , New Zealand , South Pacific , South South America
Total: Northern Australia , South Pacific
Saros cycle 133 (45 of 72)
Gamma value −0.3718
Greatest eclipse
Duration 4 minutes 2 seconds
place South Pacific , east of New Zealand
location 39 ° 57 ′  S , 161 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 57 ′  S , 161 ° 20 ′  W
time November 13, 2012 10:11:48 PM   UT
size 1.0500

The total solar eclipse of November 13, 2012 took place largely over the South Pacific . Apart from the sea, the totality could only be seen from northern Australia , the eclipse was partially visible from the Australian continent as well as from New Zealand , the Antarctic and southernmost South America .

course

The umbra first touched the earth east of the Kakadu National Park in northern Australia. According to local time, the morning of November 14th had already dawned there. The darkness corridor grew to a width of 120 kilometers and crossed Arnhem Land to the east . The eclipse took place here directly after sunrise, the total duration was 1 minute and 30 seconds. The umbra then crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria towards east-southeast and later the Cape York Peninsula . On the east coast of the peninsula, Cairns was the largest city within the totality zone. There the total lasted 2 minutes and 4 seconds.

Partial phase of eclipse in Tauranga , New Zealand

Now the umbra left the mainland and first crossed the Great Barrier Reef . South of New Caledonia , the shadow path crossed the Tropic of Capricorn and passed New Zealand, which is further south, at a distance of 500 kilometers. On New Zealand's North Island, over 80 percent of the sun's disk was covered. The maximum and all of the rest of the eclipse took place over the South Pacific. The umbra crossed the date line , so that the rest of the course took place according to local time on November 13th and not - like the entire course up to now - on November 14th. Shortly before the west coast of South America, the umbra left the surface of the earth.

literature

  • Wolfgang Held: Solar and lunar eclipses and the most important astronomical constellations up to 2017. Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7725-2231-9 .

Web links

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