Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, August 1, 2008,[1][2][3] with a magnitude of 1.0394.[4] A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.4 days after perigee (on July 30, 2008, at 0:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[5]

The eclipse was visible from a narrow corridor through northern Canada (Nunavut), Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China.[6] Visible north of the Arctic Circle, it belonged to the so-called midnight sun eclipses. The largest city in its path was Novosibirsk in Russia.[7] A partial eclipse could be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including northern Canada, Greenland, and most of Europe and Asia.[6]

The moon's apparent diameter was 1 arcminute, 17.8 arcseconds (77.8 arcseconds) larger than the annular solar eclipse of February 7, 2008.

It was described by observers as "special for its colours around the horizon. There were wonderful oranges and reds all around, the clouds lit up, some dark in silhouette, some golden, glowing yellowy-orange in the distance. You could see the shadow approaching against the clouds and then rushing away as it left."[8]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Start of eclipse: Canada and Greenland

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Animated path

The eclipse began in the far north of Canada in Nunavut at 09:21 UT, the zone of totality being 206 km wide, and lasting for 1 minute 30 seconds. The path of the eclipse then headed north-east, crossing over northern Greenland and reaching the northernmost latitude of 83° 47′ at 09:38 UT before dipping down into Russia.[9]

The path of totality touched the northeast corner of Kvitøya, an uninhabited Norwegian island in the Svalbard archipelago, at 09:47 UT.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Greatest eclipse: Russia

The eclipse reached the Russian mainland at 10:10 UT,[9] with a path 232 km wide and a duration of 2 minutes 26 seconds.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The greatest eclipse occurred shortly after, at 10:21:07 UT at coordinates Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (close to Nadym), when the path was 237 km wide, and the duration was 2 minutes 27 seconds. Cities in the path of the total eclipse included Megion, Nizhnevartovsk, Strezhevoy, Novosibirsk and Barnaul.[9] Around 10,000 tourists were present in Novosibirsk, the largest city to experience the eclipse.[7] For Gorno-Altaysk the eclipse was the second consecutive total solar eclipse after the March 2006 eclipse.[10]

Conclusion: Mongolia and China

The path of the eclipse then moved south-east, crossing into Mongolia and just clipping Kazakhstan at around 10:58 UT. The path here was 252 km wide, but the duration decreased to 2 minutes 10 seconds. The path then ran down the China-Mongolia border, ending in China at 11:18 UT, with an eclipse lasting 1 minute 27 seconds at sunset.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The total eclipse finished at 11:21 UT. The total eclipse passed over Altay City, Hami and Jiuquan.[9] Around 10,000 people were gathered to watch the eclipse in Hami.[7]

Partial eclipse

A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including the north east coast of North America and most of Europe and Asia.[6] In London, England, the partial eclipse began at 09:33 BST, with a maximum eclipse of 12% at 10:18 BST, before concluding at 11:05 BST. At Edinburgh the partial eclipse was 23.5%, whilst it was 36% in Lerwick in the Shetland Isles.[11]

LTU 1111

German charter airline LTU, now trading as Air Berlin, operated a special flight from Düsseldorf to the North Pole to observe the eclipse. Flight number LT 1111 spent over 11 hours in the air, returning to base at 6pm after flying a planeload of eclipse chasers, scientists, journalists and TV crews to watch the celestial event. The route also included a low-level sightseeing tour of Svalbard before the eclipse and the magnetic pole afterwards.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[12]

August 1, 2008 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2008 August 1 at 08:05:11.5 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2008 August 1 at 09:22:12.6 UTC
First Central Line 2008 August 1 at 09:23:43.3 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2008 August 1 at 09:25:15.6 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2008 August 1 at 09:48:26.9 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2008 August 1 at 10:13:39.0 UTC
Greatest Duration 2008 August 1 at 10:20:17.1 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2008 August 1 at 10:22:12.3 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2008 August 1 at 11:19:33.2 UTC
Last Central Line 2008 August 1 at 11:21:03.1 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2008 August 1 at 11:22:31.3 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2008 August 1 at 12:39:31.7 UTC
August 1, 2008 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 1.03942
Eclipse Obscuration 1.08040
Gamma 0.83070
Sun Right Ascension 08h47m54.1s
Sun Declination +17°51'56.4"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'45.5"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 08h49m08.8s
Moon Declination +18°38'01.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'14.1"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°59'34.8"
ΔT 65.6 s

Eclipse season

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of August 2008
August 1
Descending node (new moon)
 August 16
Ascending node (full moon)
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Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 126		 Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 138

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2008

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 126

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2008–2011

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[13]

The partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2011 and November 25, 2011 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2008 to 2011
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
121
File:Solar eclipse 2008Feb07-New Zealand-partial-Greg Hewgill.jpg
Partial in Christchurch, New Zealand 		February 7, 2008
File:SE2008Feb07A.png
Annular 		−0.95701 126
File:Corona.jpg
Totality in Kumul, Xinjiang, China 		August 1, 2008
File:SE2008Aug01T.png
Total 		0.83070
131
File:Annular solar eclipse pky.png
Annularity in Palangka Raya, Indonesia 		January 26, 2009
File:SE2009Jan26A.png
Annular 		−0.28197 136
File:Solar eclipse 22 July 2009 taken by Lutfar Rahman Nirjhar from Bangladesh.jpg
Totality in Kurigram District, Bangladesh 		July 22, 2009
File:SE2009Jul22T.png
Total 		0.06977
141
File:Solar annular eclipse of January 15, 2010 in Jinan, China.jpg
Annularity in Jinan, Shandong, China 		January 15, 2010
File:SE2010Jan15A.png
Annular 		0.40016 146
File:Eclipse 2010 Hao 1.JPG
Totality in Hao, French Polynesia 		July 11, 2010
File:SE2010Jul11T.png
Total 		−0.67877
151
File:Solar eclipse poland 4thjan2011.jpg
Partial in Poland 		January 4, 2011
File:SE2011Jan04P.png
Partial 		1.06265 156 July 1, 2011
File:SE2011Jul01P.png
Partial 		−1.49171

Saros 126

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810; hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864; and total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on June 26, 1359, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 45 at 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[14]

Series members 36–57 occur between 1801 and 2200:
36 37 38
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April 4, 1810 		File:Saros126 37van72 SE1828Apr14H.jpg
April 14, 1828 		File:SE1846Apr25H.gif
April 25, 1846
39 40 41
File:SE1864May06H.gif
May 6, 1864 		File:SE1882May17T.png
May 17, 1882 		File:SE1900May28T.png
May 28, 1900
42 43 44
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June 8, 1918 		File:SE1936Jun19T.png
June 19, 1936 		File:SE1954Jun30T.png
June 30, 1954
45 46 47
File:SE1972Jul10T.png
July 10, 1972 		File:SE1990Jul22T.png
July 22, 1990 		File:SE2008Aug01T.png
August 1, 2008
48 49 50
File:SE2026Aug12T.png
August 12, 2026 		File:SE2044Aug23T.png
August 23, 2044 		File:SE2062Sep03P.png
September 3, 2062
51 52 53
File:SE2080Sep13P.png
September 13, 2080 		File:SE2098Sep25P.png
September 25, 2098 		File:Saros126 53van72 SE2116Oct06P.jpg
October 6, 2116
54 55 56
File:Saros126 54van72 SE2134Oct17P.jpg
October 17, 2134 		File:Saros126 55van72 SE2152Oct28P.jpg
October 28, 2152 		File:Saros126 56van72 SE2170Nov08P.jpg
November 8, 2170
57
File:Saros126 57van72 SE2188Nov18P.jpg
November 18, 2188

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events between May 21, 1993 and May 20, 2069
May 20–21 March 9 December 25–26 October 13–14 August 1–2
118 120 122 124 126
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May 21, 1993 		File:SE1997Mar09T.png
March 9, 1997 		File:SE2000Dec25P.png
December 25, 2000 		File:SE2004Oct14P.png
October 14, 2004 		File:SE2008Aug01T.png
August 1, 2008
128 130 132 134 136
File:SE2012May20A.png
May 20, 2012 		File:SE2016Mar09T.png
March 9, 2016 		File:SE2019Dec26A.png
December 26, 2019 		File:SE2023Oct14A.png
October 14, 2023 		File:SE2027Aug02T.png
August 2, 2027
138 140 142 144 146
File:SE2031May21A.png
May 21, 2031 		File:SE2035Mar09A.png
March 9, 2035 		File:SE2038Dec26T.png
December 26, 2038 		File:SE2042Oct14A.png
October 14, 2042 		File:SE2046Aug02T.png
August 2, 2046
148 150 152 154 156
File:SE2050May20H.png
May 20, 2050 		File:SE2054Mar09P.png
March 9, 2054 		File:SE2057Dec26T.png
December 26, 2057 		File:SE2061Oct13A.png
October 13, 2061 		File:SE2065Aug02P.png
August 2, 2065
158
File:SE2069May20P.png
May 20, 2069

Tritos series

Template:Solar Tritos series 2008 August 1

Inex series

Template:Solar Inex series 2008 August 1

Notes

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