Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 14, 2001.[1][2][3] 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible across the Pacific Ocean, southern Costa Rica, northern Nicaragua and San Andrés Island, Colombia. The central shadow passed just south of Hawaii in early morning and ended over Central America near sunset.
Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.4089 |
Magnitude | 0.9681 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 233 s (3 min 53 s) |
Coordinates | 0.6°N 130.7°W / 0.6; -130.7 |
Max. width of band | 126 km (78 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 20:53:01 |
References | |
Saros | 132 (45 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9512 |
The moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because the eclipse occurred 7.9 days after perigee (December 6, 2001 at 22:49 UTC) and 6.7 days before apogee (December 21, 2001 at 13:03 UTC).