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Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 is visible from the following geographic regions:
- Partial Eclipse: Greenland, Europe, Asia
- Total Eclipse: Russia
The map to the right depicts the geographic regions of eclipse visibility. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.
The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on 2072 Sep 12 at 08:59:20 TD (08:57:39 UT1). This is 0.3 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Leo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 1852.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 155 and is number 9 of 71 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.
The total solar eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 is preceded two weeks earlier by a total lunar eclipse on 2072 Aug 28.
These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.
The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT). ΔT has a value of 101.7 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 - detailed map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Path Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 - coordinates of the central line and path limits
- Circumstances Table: Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 155 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
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The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Solar Eclipse of 2072 Sep 12 .