An annular
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
occurred at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on Monday, January 26, 2009. A
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
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
Annulus (or anulus) or annular indicates a ring- or donut-shaped area or structure. It may refer to:
Human anatomy
* ''Anulus fibrosus disci intervertebralis'', spinal structure
* Annulus of Zinn, a.k.a. annular tendon or ''anulus tendineus com ...
(ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
It had a
magnitude of 0.9282 and was visible from a narrow corridor beginning in the south Atlantic Ocean and sweeping eastward 900 km south of Africa, slowly curving northeast through the Indian Ocean. Its first landfall was in the
Cocos Islands followed by southern
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
and western
Java. It continued somewhat more easterly across central
Borneo, across the northwestern edge of
Celebes, then ending just before
Mindanao, Philippines. The duration of annularity at greatest eclipse lasted 7 minutes, 53.58 seconds, but at greatest duration lasted 7 minutes, 56.05 seconds.
Occurring only 3.3 days after apogee (January 23, 2009), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Visibility
Animated path
Images
Progression from
Colombo, Sri Lanka
File:Annular solar eclipse simulation Jan 26 2009.svg, Simulated view of relative diameters of Sun and Moon, as viewed near sunset at the central eclipse path over Borneo.
File:Partial eclipse of the sun. (11383898323).jpg, George, South Africa, 6:04 UTC
File:Partial Eclipse - Bloemfontein, South Africa - 26 January 2009 (3228362236).jpg, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 6:18 UTC
File:Eclipse from Cape Town (3227438185).jpg, Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislature, legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the sec ...
, 6:30 UTC
File:Eclipse - 26 01 2009 - Helpmekaar College, Braamfontein (3228354962).jpg, Helpmekaar Kollege
Helpmekaar Kollege is a private Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in Braamfontein, in the city of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
History
Helpmekaar was the first Afrikaans high school in Johannesbur ...
, South Africa, 6:54 UTC
File:Solar Eclipse 17 27 SGT (3228792172).jpg, Bukit Merah, Singapore
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, 9:27 UTC
File:Grahan - the solar eclipse (3228629132).jpg, Chennai, India
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, 9:29 UTC
File:Solar Eclipse 26 January 2009 @ South Jakarta, Indonesia (3227795765).jpg, Jakarta, Indonesia
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, 9:41 UTC
File:DSCF2989 (3253425920).jpg, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
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, 9:43 UTC
File:Solar Eclipse Pictures, January 26th, 2009 @ Observatorium Bosscha, Bandung (3230108766).jpg, Bandung, Indonesia, 9:48 UTC
File:P1262740 (3228229543).jpg, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, 9:51 UTC
File:Annular solar eclipse pky.png, Palangka Raya, Indonesia, 9:53 UTC
File:Solar Eclipse on 26 January 2009 (3228425497).jpg, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, 9:58 UTC
File:Partial Solar Eclipse - 26 Jan 2009 - Bangalore (3228910826).jpg, Bangalore, India, 10:02 UTC
File:Fwd Annular09 at Anyer Patra Hotel, Serang Indonesia (3239116480).jpg, Serang, Indonesia, 10:22 UTC
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* An annular solar eclipse on January 26.
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A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 9.
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A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7.
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A total solar eclipse on July 22.
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A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 6.
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A partial lunar eclipse on December 31.
Tzolkinex
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* Followed:
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Half-Saros
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of January 21, 2000
* Followed:
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* Followed:
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* Followed:
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* Followed:
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* Preceded:
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* Followed:
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Solar eclipses 2008–2011
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Metonic series
Notes
References
Annular Solar Eclipse of 2009 Jan 26, F. Espenak, NASA’s GSFCPDF
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Photos:
Spaceweather.com eclipse gallery Astronomy Picture of the Day, January 28, 2009, A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay, Philippines
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