Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
| Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006 | |
|---|---|
.jpg)
|
|
| classification | |
| Type | Ring-shaped |
| area |
South America , West Africa , Antarctica Annular: Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana , South Atlantic |
| Saros cycle | 144 (16 of 70) |
| Gamma value | −0.406 |
| Greatest eclipse | |
| Duration | 7 minutes 9 seconds |
| place | South Atlantic |
| location | 20 ° 40 ′ S , 9 ° 3 ′ W |
| time | September 22, 2006 11:40 a.m. UT |
| size | 0.935 |
On September 22nd, 2006 an annular solar eclipse took place in the area of the Atlantic . On the mainland it could be seen ring-shaped in the initial section in Guiana , Suriname , French Guiana and Brazil , then only on the South Atlantic. With Paramaribo (Suriname) and Cayenne (French Guayana), larger cities were located in the ring-shaped zone, on the central line of which the circular eclipse of 85% lasted 5 min 38 s with the sun being very low. Even the Kourou Space Center of ESA was in the shaded area. The solar eclipse was partially visible in practically all of South America, in the south and southwest of Africa and parts of Antarctica, as well as in half of Madagascar and the holiday islands of Mauritius and La Réunion .
Because of the proximity to the autumn equinox (September 23, 2006 at 06:03 CEST) and because the descending node of the lunar orbit coincided with the autumn point, the ring-shaped zone was strongly curved to the south after a short parallel to the equator. Here the lunar orbit inclination (5.2 °) and the ecliptic inclination (23.5 °) add up.
The eclipse of September 22, 2006 was the 16th of a series of 70 eclipses in Saros . It took place in the descending node of the lunar orbit.
The following solar eclipses were on March 19 and September 11, 2007 , both of which were partial eclipses . In 2008 central solar eclipses occurred again: on February 7, 2008 (ring-shaped) and on August 1, 2008 (total).
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Keller (Ed.): Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2006 . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10269-6
Web links
- solar-eclipse.de: The annular solar eclipse from September 22nd, 2006
- NASA: Anular Solar Eclipse of 2006 September 22
- Solar Eclipses of Saros 144
|
Previous solar eclipses:
|
Later solar eclipses:
|
|||||||||
|
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) |
February 7, 2008 (ring-shaped) |
August 1, 2008 (total) |
January 26, 2009 (ring-shaped) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Lists: 20th century • 21st century • All lists | ||||||||||