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Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17
Fred Espenak
Introduction
The Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17 is visible from the geographic regions shown on the map to the right. 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 2235 May 17 at 21:36:41 TD (21:31:01 UT1). This is 5.6 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Aries. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 3864.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 122 and is number 70 of 70 eclipses in the series. Thus, the 2235 May 17 event is the last eclipse of the series . All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.
This is a very deep partial eclipse. It has an eclipse magnitude of 0.1044, while Gamma has a value of 1.4946.
The partial solar eclipse of 2235 May 17 is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse on 2235 Jun 02.
Another solar eclipse occurs one synodic month after the 2235 May 17 eclipse. It is the partial solar eclipse of 2235 Jun 16.
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 339.8 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 86.7 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 0.36°.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Orthographic Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17 - global map of eclipse visibility
- Google Map: Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17 - interactive map of the eclipse path
- Circumstances Table: Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17 - eclipse times for hundreds of cities
- Saros 122 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Solar Eclipse of 2235 May 17 .