Eclipse Search
Listing of Eclipses:
- - of Saros series 142
- - of types: Lunar: penumbral partial total
Date Time Type Sar P-Mag U-Mag Gamma P-Durn T-Durn Lat Long 1709/09/19 00:30 L,N 142B 0.091 -1.008 1.544 1727/09/30 07:40 L,N 142 0.183 -0.921 1.495 1745/10/10 14:57 L,N 142 0.265 -0.844 1.451 1763/10/21 22:22 L,N 142 0.334 -0.779 1.415 1781/11/01 05:56 L,N 142 0.391 -0.726 1.385 1799/11/12 13:38 L,N 142 0.436 -0.685 1.362 1817/11/23 21:27 L,N 142 0.471 -0.653 1.343 1835/12/05 05:20 L,N 142 0.498 -0.628 1.329 1853/12/15 13:19 L,N 142 0.518 -0.609 1.319 1871/12/26 21:19 L,N 142 0.533 -0.595 1.311 1890/01/06 05:21 L,N 142 0.547 -0.581 1.303 1908/01/18 13:21 L,N 142 0.564 -0.564 1.294 1926/01/28 21:20 L,N 142 0.582 -0.544 1.284 1944/02/09 05:15 L,N 142 0.606 -0.518 1.270 1962/02/19 13:03 L,N 142 0.638 -0.482 1.251 1980/03/01 20:45 L,N 142 0.681 -0.436 1.227 1998/03/13 04:20 L,N 142 0.735 -0.378 1.196 2016/03/23 11:47 L,N 142 0.801 -0.308 1.159 2034/04/03 19:05 L,N 142 0.881 -0.223 1.115 2052/04/14 02:16 L,N 142 0.972 -0.126 1.063 2070/04/25 09:19 L,N 142 1.077 -0.017 1.005 2088/05/05 16:14 L,P 142 1.195 0.106 0.939 78m00s 2106/05/17 23:03 L,P 142 1.323 0.239 0.868 116m00s 2124/05/28 05:47 L,P 142 1.461 0.381 0.792 142m00s 2142/06/08 12:28 L,P 142 1.605 0.529 0.712 164m00s 2160/06/18 19:05 L,P 142 1.757 0.685 0.628 182m00s 2178/06/30 01:42 L,P 142 1.909 0.841 0.544 196m00s 2196/07/10 08:19 L,T 142 2.066 1.000 0.458 206m00s 4m00s 2214/07/22 14:59 L,T 142 2.219 1.156 0.374 214m00s 62m00s 2232/08/01 21:42 L,T 142 2.372 1.310 0.290 222m00s 82m00s 2250/08/13 04:31 L,T/S- 142 2.516 1.456 0.211 226m00s 94m00s 2268/08/23 11:25 L,T/S- 142 2.654 1.596 0.135 228m00s 100m00s 2286/09/03 18:27 L,T/S- 142 2.782 1.725 0.065 228m00s 104m00s 2304/09/15 01:37 L,T/S- 142 2.901 1.844 0.001 228m00s 104m00s 2322/09/26 08:57 L,T/N- 142 2.798 1.742 -0.056 228m00s 104m00s 2340/10/06 16:26 L,T/N- 142 2.705 1.649 -0.107 226m00s 102m00s 2358/10/18 00:05 L,T/N- 142 2.626 1.569 -0.150 224m00s 98m00s 2376/10/28 07:54 L,T 142M 2.559 1.503 -0.187 222m00s 94m00s 2394/11/08 15:52 L,T/N- 142 2.506 1.450 -0.215 220m00s 92m00s 2412/11/18 23:58 L,T/N- 142 2.464 1.409 -0.238 218m00s 88m00s 2430/11/30 08:13 L,T/N- 142 2.434 1.379 -0.254 216m00s 86m00s 2448/12/10 16:33 L,T/N- 142 2.412 1.358 -0.266 214m00s 84m00s 2466/12/22 01:01 L,T 142 2.398 1.346 -0.273 214m00s 82m00s 2485/01/01 09:30 L,T 142 2.385 1.336 -0.280 212m00s 82m00s 2503/01/13 18:04 L,T 142 2.378 1.331 -0.283 212m00s 80m00s 2521/01/24 02:37 L,T 142 2.369 1.326 -0.287 212m00s 80m00s 2539/02/04 11:10 L,T 142 2.358 1.319 -0.291 210m00s 80m00s 2557/02/14 19:39 L,T 142 2.340 1.305 -0.300 210m00s 78m00s 2575/02/26 04:06 L,T 142 2.317 1.287 -0.311 208m00s 76m00s 2593/03/08 12:27 L,T 142 2.284 1.259 -0.328 208m00s 72m00s
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Note that the database does not contain the whole of lunar Saros series 142, 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.
