Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003

Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
classification
Type	Total
area	Australia , New Zealand , Antarctica , Southern South America Total: Antarctica
Saros cycle	152 (12 of 70)
Gamma value	−0.9638
Greatest eclipse
Duration	1 minutes 55 seconds
place	Wilkesland
location	72 ° 40 ′  S , 88 ° 23 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 40 ′  S , 88 ° 23 ′  E
time	November 23, 2003 22:49:17   UT
size	1.0379

The total solar eclipse of November 23, 2003 took place exclusively in the southern hemisphere and could only be seen in their total phase in the southern Indian Ocean and Antarctica . The eclipse of Australia , New Zealand and the southern tip of South America could be partially observed.

As with the ring-shaped eclipse of May 31 of the same year , the shadow path moved in the "wrong" direction from east to west. The reason for this is analogous to the previous eclipse and is related to the fact that the shadow cone just touched the earth and at the same time the time of the eclipse was near the summer solstice , this time only in the southern instead of the northern hemisphere.

The following solar eclipses

The next central eclipse did not take place until April 8, 2005 : in this hybrid eclipse , the umbra streaked over the South Pacific. In 2004 there was no central eclipse at all and only two partial eclipses, namely on April 19 and October 14 .

literature

• Hans-Ulrich Keller (Ed.): Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2003 . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-09094-9

Web links

• solar-eclipse.de: The total solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
• NASA: Total Solar Eclipse of 2003 November 23 Solar Eclipses of Saros 152
• Fred Espenak : Eclipses During 2003