Eclipse Search
Listing of Eclipses:
- - of Saros series 147
- - of types: Lunar: penumbral partial total
Date Time Type Sar P-Mag U-Mag Gamma P-Durn T-Durn Lat Long 1872/06/21 06:43 L,N 147B 0.001 -0.964 -1.556 1890/07/02 14:09 L,N 147 0.127 -0.839 -1.487 1908/07/13 21:34 L,N 147 0.254 -0.713 -1.419 1926/07/25 05:00 L,N 147 0.379 -0.591 -1.351 1944/08/04 12:26 L,N 147 0.503 -0.470 -1.284 1962/08/15 19:57 L,N 147 0.621 -0.356 -1.221 1980/08/26 03:31 L,N 147 0.734 -0.248 -1.161 1998/09/06 11:10 L,N 147 0.837 -0.149 -1.106 2016/09/16 18:54 L,N 147 0.933 -0.058 -1.055 2034/09/28 02:46 L,P 147 1.016 0.020 -1.011 32m00s 2052/10/08 10:44 L,P 147 1.089 0.087 -0.973 66m00s 2070/10/19 18:49 L,P 147 1.151 0.143 -0.941 84m00s 2088/10/30 03:00 L,P 147 1.201 0.188 -0.915 94m00s 2106/11/11 11:18 L,P 147 1.240 0.222 -0.895 102m00s 2124/11/21 19:43 L,P 147 1.268 0.245 -0.881 108m00s 2142/12/03 04:11 L,P 147 1.290 0.262 -0.871 112m00s 2160/12/13 12:45 L,P 147 1.302 0.269 -0.865 114m00s 2178/12/24 21:20 L,P 147 1.310 0.274 -0.862 114m00s 2197/01/04 05:57 L,P 147 1.314 0.275 -0.860 116m00s 2215/01/16 14:32 L,P 147 1.320 0.278 -0.858 116m00s 2233/01/26 23:07 L,P 147 1.326 0.281 -0.856 118m00s 2251/02/07 07:37 L,P 147 1.337 0.291 -0.850 120m00s 2269/02/17 16:01 L,P 147 1.354 0.307 -0.841 122m00s 2287/03/01 00:19 L,P 147 1.380 0.332 -0.827 128m00s 2305/03/12 08:30 L,P 147 1.416 0.367 -0.808 134m00s 2323/03/23 16:31 L,P 147 1.464 0.415 -0.781 142m00s 2341/04/03 00:23 L,P 147 1.525 0.476 -0.749 150m00s 2359/04/14 08:06 L,P 147 1.599 0.550 -0.708 160m00s 2377/04/24 15:39 L,P 147 1.684 0.635 -0.662 170m00s 2395/05/05 23:01 L,P 147 1.786 0.736 -0.606 182m00s 2413/05/16 06:16 L,P 147 1.896 0.846 -0.546 192m00s 2431/05/27 13:21 L,P 147 2.021 0.969 -0.479 200m00s 2449/06/06 20:20 L,T 147 2.152 1.099 -0.407 210m00s 50m00s 2467/06/18 03:11 L,T 147 2.296 1.241 -0.330 216m00s 74m00s 2485/06/28 09:59 L,T/N- 147 2.442 1.385 -0.251 222m00s 88m00s 2503/07/10 16:41 L,T 147M 2.595 1.536 -0.168 228m00s 98m00s 2521/07/20 23:23 L,T/N- 147 2.748 1.685 -0.086 230m00s 104m00s 2539/08/01 06:02 L,T/N- 147 2.903 1.837 -0.002 232m00s 106m00s 2557/08/11 12:45 L,T/S- 147 2.764 1.694 0.079 232m00s 104m00s 2575/08/22 19:28 L,T/S- 147 2.622 1.547 0.158 230m00s 100m00s 2593/09/02 02:15 L,T/S- 147 2.486 1.407 0.233 226m00s 92m00s 2611/09/14 09:06 L,T 147 2.359 1.275 0.303 222m00s 78m00s 2629/09/24 16:04 L,T 147 2.243 1.153 0.368 218m00s 62m00s 2647/10/05 23:08 L,T 147 2.138 1.043 0.427 212m00s 34m00s 2665/10/16 06:19 L,P 147 2.044 0.945 0.479 206m00s 2683/10/27 13:39 L,P 147 1.965 0.860 0.524 200m00s 2701/11/07 21:06 L,P 147 1.897 0.788 0.562 194m00s 2719/11/19 04:40 L,P 147 1.841 0.727 0.594 188m00s 2737/11/29 12:22 L,P 147 1.796 0.679 0.619 184m00s 2755/12/10 20:10 L,P 147 1.761 0.640 0.639 180m00s
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Note that the database does not contain the whole of lunar Saros series 147, since it ends after year 3000.
Query the Eclipse Database
The database contains all solar and lunar eclipses from 2000 BC to 3000 AD inclusive. BC years are shown in negative notation, as used by astronomers; 1 BC is year 0, 2 BC is year -1, etc.; so 2000 BC is -1999.
To do a search, pick a range of years to search, or leave those fields blank to search the whole database. Then pick a search type:
- you can search for all eclipses in the chosen range of years;
- or for eclipses in a particular Saros series and/or of a given type;
- or for years where a certain number of eclipses occur, or a certain number of total eclipses (for example, to find a year with 4 eclipses).
- or for eclipses in a particular Saros series and/or of a given type;
Bear in mind that if a Saros started before 2000 BC, or ends after 3000 AD, only part of the series will be shown.
Any field left blank will match all possible values for that field. Leaving all the fields blank, and selecting all the eclipse types, will return the whole database; since this is huge, the results are broken up into pages. Go to the eclipse stats page to see how you can get the whole database, and the search engine.
Key to Fields
- Date / Time
- The date and time of the moment of greatest eclipse. This is the
instant when the axis of the Moon's shadow passes closest to the
Earth's center. The date format is year/month/day, and the year
is always shown in full; so, a date like "97/03/17" means the 17th
of March, year 97 AD (not 1997); and bearing in mind the
astronomical notation for BC years, "-19/03/17" means the 17th of
March, year 20 BC.
All dates in the database up to Oct 04, 1582 are in the Julian calendar; all dates after Oct 15 1582 are Gregorian.
For total eclipses, the instant of greatest eclipse is virtually identical to the instants of greatest magnitude and greatest duration.
- Type
- The type of the eclipse. The first letter is one of:
- S
- A solar eclipse. The following letter is the type: P=partial; T=total; A=annular; H=hybrid.
- L
- A lunar eclipse. The following letter is the type: N=penumbral; P=partial; T=total.
The following notations may also appear:
- N
- The northern edge of the eclipse is off the north end of the Earth.
- N-
- The northern edge and the centre of the eclipse are off the north end of the Earth.
- S
- The southern edge of the eclipse is off the south end of the Earth.
- S-
- The southern edge and the centre of the eclipse are off the south end of the Earth.
- Saros
- The Saros series of the eclipse.
The following notations may also appear:
- B
- This is the first eclipse in this series.
- M
- This is the middle eclipse in this series.
- E
- This is the last eclipse in this series.
- P-Mag
- The penumbral magnitude of a lunar eclipse (doesn't apply to solar eclipses); the fraction of the Moon's diameter which is obscured by the penumbra.
- U-Mag
- The umbral magnitude of the eclipse. For a lunar eclipse, this is the fraction of the Moon's diameter obscured by the umbra; for a solar eclipse, it is the fraction of the Sun's diameter which is obscured at the moment of greatest eclipse.
- Gamma
- The distance of the the axis of the Moon's shadow from the Earth's center at maximum eclipse, measured as a fraction of the Earth's radius. A negative value indicates that the eclipse is below the centre of the Earth as seen from the Sun; this is not necessarily the same as being centred south of the equator, due to the Earth's tilt. The search form looks at absolute value of gamma -- ie. it treats all values as positive -- so that you can search for eg. all marginal eclipses without having to do two searches. Hence searching for values < 0 will return nothing.
- P-Durn
- For a lunar eclipse, this is the duration of the partial eclipse (if any) at the point of greatest eclipse (doesn't apply to solar eclipses).
- T-Durn
- For a lunar eclipse, this is the duration of the total (umbral) eclipse (if any); for a solar eclipse, it is the duration of the total or annular eclipse (if any) at the point of greatest eclipse.
- Lat/Long
- The location on the Earth's surface at which the greatest eclipse will be seen. This applies to solar eclipses only.
