Sunday, March 18, 2007

Partial solar eclipse in Beijing

Solar eclipse of 2007 March 19

A partial solar eclipse will take place later today in Beijing:

  • Partial Solar Eclipse begins (初虧) at 09:27:32.4 CST.
    Position angle=269.1°, Position angle vertex=308.5°, Altitude=33.1°, Azimuth=124.4° SE
  • Maximum eclipse (食甚) at 10:23:11.9 CST.
    Magnitude=39.491%, Obscuration=28.342%
    Separation=1215.35", Position angle=320.0°, Position angle vertex=350.5°, Altitude=41.1°, Azimuth=138.8° SE, Duration of eclipse=1h54m, ET-UT=65.2sec
  • Partial Solar Eclipse ends (復圓) at 11:21:21.6 CST.
    Position angle=11.1°, Position angle vertex=28.4°, Altitude=47.0°, Azimuth=157.3° SSE

Data credit: calsky.com

The previous and next solar eclipses in Beijing urban area (39°54.4′N 116°23.5′E):

  • The previous partial solar eclipse was at 2002-06-11 06:39 CST, while the next will be at 2008-08-01 19:09 CST.
  • The previous annular solar eclipse was at 1802-08-28 15:46 CST, while the next will be at 2118-03-22 15:33 CST.
  • The previous total solar eclipse was at 1277-10-28 13:19 CST, while the next will be at 2035-09-02 08:33 CST.

Here is my earlier effort for discussion about total and annular solar eclipses seen from the whole Beijing municipality other than only in the urban area.

Here is a list compiled by myself in June 2000 for all solar eclipses in Beijing from 2001 to 3000. It's no warrant to the accuracy, so use it at your own risk.

1 Comments:

At Monday, March 19, 2007 5:52:00 AM, Zig said...

It is rainy today...

 

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