Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009
Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009 | |
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classification | |
Type | Ring-shaped |
area | Southern Africa , Antarctica , Southeast Asia , Australia Annular: Southern India , Sumatra , Borneo |
Saros cycle | 131 (51 of 71) |
Gamma value | −0.2819 |
Greatest eclipse | |
Duration | 7 minutes 54 seconds |
place | Indian Ocean |
location | 34 ° 4 ′ S , 70 ° 14 ′ E |
time | January 26, 2009 07:58:39 UT |
size | 0.9282 |
The ring-shaped solar eclipse of January 26, 2009 mainly took place over the sea. It began in the South Atlantic and passed Africa far south of the Cape of Good Hope . The zone of the annular eclipse moved northeast over the entire Indian Ocean . This is where the peak of the eclipse was reached, the ring-shaped phase lasted 7 minutes and 54 seconds, the width of the ring-shaped eclipse being 280 kilometers. The moon's shadow was moving at this point at around 2,055 km / h over the Indian Ocean.
Towards the end of the eclipse, southern Sumatra with the Krakatau volcano was in the zone of ring-shaped eclipse. The eclipse finally ended in Indonesia at sunset.
The darkness could not be observed from Central Europe .
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Keller (Ed.): Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2002 . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08527-9
Web links
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