Eclipse Search
Listing of Eclipses:
- - of Saros series 149
- - of types: Lunar: penumbral partial total
Date Time Type Sar P-Mag U-Mag Gamma P-Durn T-Durn Lat Long 1984/06/13 14:26 L,N 149B 0.090 -0.936 -1.524 2002/06/24 21:27 L,N 149 0.235 -0.787 -1.444 2020/07/05 04:30 L,N 149 0.380 -0.638 -1.364 2038/07/16 11:34 L,N 149 0.525 -0.490 -1.284 2056/07/26 18:41 L,N 149 0.669 -0.344 -1.205 2074/08/07 01:53 L,N 149 0.806 -0.204 -1.129 2092/08/17 09:11 L,N 149 0.938 -0.071 -1.057 2110/08/29 16:35 L,P 149 1.061 0.054 -0.990 52m00s 2128/09/09 00:06 L,P 149 1.176 0.169 -0.927 92m00s 2146/09/20 07:46 L,P 149 1.278 0.272 -0.871 114m00s 2164/09/30 15:35 L,P 149 1.370 0.363 -0.821 130m00s 2182/10/11 23:32 L,P 149 1.449 0.442 -0.778 140m00s 2200/10/23 07:38 L,P 149 1.516 0.509 -0.741 148m00s 2218/11/03 15:53 L,P 149 1.571 0.564 -0.712 154m00s 2236/11/14 00:16 L,P 149 1.614 0.607 -0.688 158m00s 2254/11/25 08:46 L,P 149 1.648 0.640 -0.670 162m00s 2272/12/05 17:22 L,P 149 1.672 0.664 -0.657 164m00s 2290/12/17 02:05 L,P 149 1.688 0.681 -0.648 166m00s 2308/12/28 10:50 L,P 149 1.701 0.695 -0.641 166m00s 2327/01/08 19:38 L,P 149 1.710 0.706 -0.635 168m00s 2345/01/19 04:25 L,P 149 1.719 0.717 -0.629 168m00s 2363/01/30 13:13 L,P 149 1.729 0.729 -0.624 168m00s 2381/02/09 21:56 L,P 149 1.746 0.749 -0.614 170m00s 2399/02/21 06:37 L,P 149 1.766 0.772 -0.602 172m00s 2417/03/03 15:11 L,P 149 1.796 0.806 -0.584 174m00s 2435/03/14 23:40 L,P 149 1.834 0.848 -0.563 178m00s 2453/03/25 08:01 L,P 149 1.885 0.903 -0.534 182m00s 2471/04/05 16:17 L,P 149 1.945 0.966 -0.500 186m00s 2489/04/16 00:24 L,T 149 2.018 1.043 -0.459 190m00s 30m00s 2507/04/28 08:24 L,T 149 2.102 1.131 -0.412 194m00s 52m00s 2525/05/08 16:17 L,T 149 2.198 1.229 -0.360 198m00s 66m00s 2543/05/20 00:05 L,T 149 2.302 1.336 -0.302 202m00s 78m00s 2561/05/30 07:46 L,T/N- 149 2.417 1.453 -0.239 206m00s 88m00s 2579/06/10 15:22 L,T/N- 149 2.539 1.577 -0.172 210m00s 94m00s 2597/06/20 22:55 L,T/N- 149 2.668 1.707 -0.101 212m00s 98m00s 2615/07/03 06:25 L,T 149M 2.799 1.839 -0.029 212m00s 100m00s 2633/07/13 13:53 L,T/S- 149 2.771 1.810 0.045 212m00s 100m00s 2651/07/24 21:21 L,T/S- 149 2.636 1.675 0.118 212m00s 98m00s 2669/08/04 04:49 L,T/S- 149 2.502 1.540 0.192 208m00s 92m00s 2687/08/15 12:20 L,T/S- 149 2.373 1.409 0.263 206m00s 84m00s 2705/08/26 19:51 L,T 149 2.247 1.280 0.332 202m00s 74m00s 2723/09/07 03:29 L,T 149 2.131 1.161 0.396 196m00s 58m00s 2741/09/17 11:10 L,T 149 2.022 1.048 0.457 192m00s 32m00s 2759/09/28 18:58 L,P 149 1.924 0.946 0.511 186m00s 2777/10/09 02:51 L,P 149 1.834 0.852 0.561 178m00s 2795/10/20 10:53 L,P 149 1.759 0.772 0.604 172m00s 2813/10/30 19:00 L,P 149 1.693 0.701 0.641 166m00s 2831/11/11 03:15 L,P 149 1.638 0.642 0.672 162m00s 2849/11/21 11:36 L,P 149 1.594 0.593 0.697 156m00s 2867/12/02 20:04 L,P 149 1.560 0.555 0.717 152m00s
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Note that the database does not contain the whole of lunar Saros series 149, 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.
