2003 Nov 23: Total Solar Eclipse and Total Solar Eclipse of November 23

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Dear Sahaji,

For your information During the year 2003, there will be two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses:

 

2003 May 16: Total Lunar Eclipse 2003 May 31: Annular Solar Eclipse

Nextly :

 

2003 Nov 09: Total Lunar Eclipse 2003 Nov 23: Total Solar Eclipse

 

 

 

Total Solar Eclipse of November 23

The final event of 2003 is a total solar eclipse visible from the Southern Hemisphere Figure 5. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins at 22:19 UT in the southern Indian Ocean about 1100 kilometres southeast of Kerguelen Island (Figure 6). Curving south, the 500 kilometre wide umbral path reaches the coast of Antarctica at 22:35 UT. The Shackleton Ice Shelf and Russia's Mirnyy research station lie in the path where the central line duration is 1 minute 55 seconds and the Sun stands 13° above the frozen landscape. Quickly moving inland, the elongated shadow sweeps over the desolate interior of the continent encountering no permanently staffed research stations for the next half hour. Greatest eclipse occurs in Wilkes Land at 22:49:17 UT. At this point, the duration of totality reaches its maximum of 1 minute 55 seconds at solar altitude of 15°. The duration and altitude slowly drop as the umbra's path curves from southwest to northwest. Just like May's annular eclipse, the November event features a lunar shadow moving in the "wrong" direction. Once again, the explanation lies in the deep southern track of the umbra coupled with the close proximity of the eclipse with winter solstice. As viewed from the Sun's direction, the shadow passes around the "back" side of the pole between Earth's axis of rotation and the terminator. The umbra reaches the Antarctic coast in Queen Maud Land and several more research stations (Asuka, Novolazarevskaya, Maitri) before the path ends and the shadow leaves Earth's surface (23:19 UT) one hour after it began. The rest of Antarctica will see a partial eclipse as well as New Zealand, most of Australia, and southern Argentina and Chile (Figure 5). Coordinates for the path of totality and central line circumstances are presented in Table 5. Local circumstances for a selection of cities throughout the path are given in Table 6 . All times are given in Universal Time. The Sun's altitude and azimuth, the eclipse magnitude and obscuration are all given at the instant of maximum eclipse. A detailed report on this eclipse is available from NASA's Technical Publication series (see: NASA Solar Eclipse Bulletins). Additional information is also available at the 2003 total solar eclipse web site: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE2003/TSE2003.htmlKovacs Erzsebet <telkov wrote:

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