Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003

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Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma −0.9638
Magnitude 1.0379
Maximum eclipse
Duration117 s (1 min 57 s)
Coordinates 72°42′S88°24′E / 72.7°S 88.4°E / -72.7; 88.4
Max. width of band495 km (308 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse22:50:22
References
Saros 152 (12 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9516

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Sunday, November 23 and Monday, November 24, 2003, [1] [2] with a magnitude of 1.0379. 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 25 minutes before perigee (on November 23, 2003, at 23:15 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was near its maximum. [3] Perigee did occur just past the greatest point of this eclipse.

Contents

For most solar eclipses the path of totality moves eastwards. In this case the path moved south and then west round Antarctica.

Totality was visible from a corridor in eastern Antarctica. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, southern Chile, and southern Argentina.

Observations

A Russian icebreaker departed from Port Elizabeth, South Africa carrying tourists to observe the eclipse near the Shackleton Ice Shelf and Novolazarevskaya Station, and then sailed to Hobart, Tasmania. About 100 people from 15 countries were on board, including Iranian amateur astronomer Babak Amin Tafreshi, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Fred Espenak, Williams College professor Jay Pasachoff. There are also about 200 scientists and tourists taking two commercial charter flights to observe it over Antarctica. This was the first time humans observed a total solar eclipse from Antarctica. [4] [5] [6]


Images

A photo of the eclipse. MEDIA LUNA (3254112834).jpg
A photo of the eclipse.

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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. [7]

November 23, 2003 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2003 November 23 at 20:47:10.0 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2003 November 23 at 22:20:25.7 UTC
First Central Line2003 November 23 at 22:23:45.1 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2003 November 23 at 22:27:31.3 UTC
Greatest Duration2003 November 23 at 22:50:18.7 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2003 November 23 at 22:50:21.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2003 November 23 at 23:00:01.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2003 November 23 at 23:21:19.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2003 November 23 at 23:12:52.0 UTC
Last Central Line2003 November 23 at 23:16:38.4 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2003 November 23 at 23:19:57.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2003 November 24 at 00:53:20.5 UTC
November 23, 2003 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude1.03789
Eclipse Obscuration1.07721
Gamma−0.96381
Sun Right Ascension15h56m23.2s
Sun Declination-20°24'22.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'11.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension15h55m07.5s
Moon Declination-21°20'45.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'44.7"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax1°01'27.3"
ΔT64.5 s

Eclipse season

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 November 2003
November 9
Ascending node (full moon)
 November 23
Descending node (new moon)
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Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 126		 Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 152

Eclipses in 2003

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 152

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2000–2003

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. [8]

The partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
117 July 1, 2000
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Partial		−1.28214122
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Partial projection in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		December 25, 2000
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Partial		1.13669
127
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Totality in Lusaka, Zambia 		June 21, 2001
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Total		−0.57013132
Partial solar eclipse December 14 2001 Minneapolis.jpg
Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		December 14, 2001
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Annular		0.40885
137
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Partial in Los Angeles, CA, USA 		June 10, 2002
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Annular		0.19933142
Eclipse 4-12-2002 Woomera.jpg
Totality in Woomera, South Australia 		December 4, 2002
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Total		−0.30204
147
Annular 2003-05-31 Culloden.png
Annularity in Culloden, Scotland 		May 31, 2003
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Annular		0.99598152
ECLIPSE LUNAR (3254112650).jpg 		November 23, 2003
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Total		−0.96381

Saros 152

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 152, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 26, 1805. It contains total eclipses from November 2, 1967 through September 14, 2490; hybrid eclipses from September 26, 2508 through October 17, 2544; and annular eclipses from October 29, 2562 through June 16, 2941. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 20, 3049. 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 totality will be produced by member 30 at 5 minutes, 16 seconds on June 9, 2328, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 53 at 5 minutes, 20 seconds on February 16, 2743. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [9]

Series members 1–22 occur between 1805 and 2200:
123
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July 26, 1805		 SE1823Aug06P.gif
August 6, 1823		 SE1841Aug16P.gif
August 16, 1841
456
SE1859Aug28P.gif
August 28, 1859		 SE1877Sep07P.gif
September 7, 1877		 SE1895Sep18P.gif
September 18, 1895
789
SE1913Sep30P.png
September 30, 1913 		SE1931Oct11P.png
October 11, 1931 		SE1949Oct21P.png
October 21, 1949
101112
SE1967Nov02T.png
November 2, 1967 		SE1985Nov12T.png
November 12, 1985 		SE2003Nov23T.png
November 23, 2003
131415
SE2021Dec04T.png
December 4, 2021 		SE2039Dec15T.png
December 15, 2039 		SE2057Dec26T.png
December 26, 2057
161718
SE2076Jan06T.png
January 6, 2076 		SE2094Jan16T.png
January 16, 2094 		Saros152 18van70 SE2112Jan29T.jpg
January 29, 2112
192021
Saros152 19van70 SE2130Feb08T.jpg
February 8, 2130		 Saros152 20van70 SE2148Feb19T.jpg
February 19, 2148		 Saros152 21van70 SE2166Mar02T.jpg
March 2, 2166
22
Saros152 22van70 SE2184Mar12T.jpg
March 12, 2184

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.

22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011
September 11–12June 30–July 1April 17–19February 4–5November 22–23
114116118120122
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September 12, 1931 		SE1935Jun30P.png
June 30, 1935 		SE1939Apr19A.png
April 19, 1939 		SE1943Feb04T.png
February 4, 1943 		SE1946Nov23P.png
November 23, 1946
124126128130132
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September 12, 1950 		SE1954Jun30T.png
June 30, 1954 		SE1958Apr19A.png
April 19, 1958 		SE1962Feb05T.png
February 5, 1962 		SE1965Nov23A.png
November 23, 1965
134136138140142
SE1969Sep11A.png
September 11, 1969 		SE1973Jun30T.png
June 30, 1973 		SE1977Apr18A.png
April 18, 1977 		SE1981Feb04A.png
February 4, 1981 		SE1984Nov22T.png
November 22, 1984
144146148150152
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September 11, 1988 		SE1992Jun30T.png
June 30, 1992 		SE1996Apr17P.png
April 17, 1996 		SE2000Feb05P.png
February 5, 2000 		SE2003Nov23T.png
November 23, 2003
154156
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September 11, 2007 		SE2011Jul01P.png
July 1, 2011

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

The partial solar eclipses on November 16, 2134 (part of Saros 164) and October 16, 2145 (part of Saros 165) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2069
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June 6, 1807
(Saros 134)		 SE1818May05A.gif
May 5, 1818
(Saros 135)		 SE1829Apr03T.gif
April 3, 1829
(Saros 136)		 SE1840Mar04A.png
March 4, 1840
(Saros 137)		 SE1851Feb01A.gif
February 1, 1851
(Saros 138)
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December 31, 1861
(Saros 139)		 SE1872Nov30H.gif
November 30, 1872
(Saros 140)		 SE1883Oct30A.gif
October 30, 1883
(Saros 141)		 SE1894Sep29T.gif
September 29, 1894
(Saros 142)		 SE1905Aug30T.png
August 30, 1905
(Saros 143)
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July 30, 1916
(Saros 144)		 SE1927Jun29T.png
June 29, 1927
(Saros 145)		 SE1938May29T.png
May 29, 1938
(Saros 146)		 SE1949Apr28P.png
April 28, 1949
(Saros 147)		 SE1960Mar27P.png
March 27, 1960
(Saros 148)
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February 25, 1971
(Saros 149)		 SE1982Jan25P.png
January 25, 1982
(Saros 150)		 SE1992Dec24P.png
December 24, 1992
(Saros 151)		 SE2003Nov23T.png
November 23, 2003
(Saros 152)		 SE2014Oct23P.png
October 23, 2014
(Saros 153)
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September 21, 2025
(Saros 154)		 SE2036Aug21P.png
August 21, 2036
(Saros 155)		 SE2047Jul22P.png
July 22, 2047
(Saros 156)		 SE2058Jun21P.png
June 21, 2058
(Saros 157)		 SE2069May20P.png
May 20, 2069
(Saros 158)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
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April 13, 1801
(Saros 145)		 SE1830Mar24P.gif
March 24, 1830
(Saros 146)		 SE1859Mar04P.gif
March 4, 1859
(Saros 147)
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February 11, 1888
(Saros 148)		 SE1917Jan23P.png
January 23, 1917
(Saros 149)		 SE1946Jan03P.png
January 3, 1946
(Saros 150)
SE1974Dec13P.png
December 13, 1974
(Saros 151)		 SE2003Nov23T.png
November 23, 2003
(Saros 152)		 SE2032Nov03P.png
November 3, 2032
(Saros 153)
SE2061Oct13A.png
October 13, 2061
(Saros 154)		 SE2090Sep23T.png
September 23, 2090
(Saros 155)		 Saros156 07van69 SE2119Sep05P.jpg
September 5, 2119
(Saros 156)
Saros157 06van70 SE2148Aug14P.jpg
August 14, 2148
(Saros 157)		 Saros158 07van70 SE2177Jul25P.jpg
July 25, 2177
(Saros 158)

Notes

  1. ↑ "November 23–24, 2003 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Eclipse of sun viewed on Antarctic for first time". Whitehorse Daily Star. 2003-11-24. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-10-25– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Ice and fire: A total solar eclipse over Antarctica". Australian Antarctic Division. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Antarctica – 23 November 2003". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Glenn Schneider. "TSE 2003 & TOTAL ECLIPSE IMAGING From the Flight Deck of QF2901/Antarctica 23 November 2003". Archived from the original on 20 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Total Solar Eclipse of 2003 Nov 23". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  8. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 152". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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