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- Mar 9, 203575% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses New Zealand
- Greatest eclipse of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2035 Mar 09 falls at 23:04:32.7 UT at 29°02.5'S 154°56.9'W, with the Sun 63.9° high, a path only 31.5 km wide and a central duration of 00m47.6s[1]
- Annularity is far longer at the sunrise end of the track: the point of Greatest Duration is 21:25:47 UT at 43°22'S 127°06'E, with the Sun on the horizon (altitude 0.0°), a path 95.5 km wide and a central duration of 01m25.9s[1][3]
- The path of annularity crosses New Zealand and the Pacific, while the partial eclipse is visible from Australia, New Zealand, the southern Pacific, Mexico and Antarctica[2]
- The eclipse belongs to Saros series 140, with eclipse magnitude 0.9919 (0.992 in the decade table), gamma -0.4368, path width 31 km and central duration 00m48s; the catalogues give greatest eclipse in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 23:05:54[4] and 23:05:53[2], the same instant as the source's 23:04:32.7 UT given ΔT = 80.2 seconds[1][2][4]
- The source page tabulates the antumbral shadow at 120-second intervals in WGS 84 coordinates - 99 timed rows from 21:26 UT to 00:42 UT plus opening and closing "Limits" rows - with northern and southern limits, the central line, the Moon/Sun diameter ratio, the Sun's altitude and azimuth, path width and central-line duration[1]
- Saros 140 runs 1262.11 years across 71 eclipses (32 annular, 24 partial, 11 total, 4 hybrid, sequence "8P 11T 4H 32A 16P"), from a partial eclipse on 1512 Apr 16 to a partial eclipse on 2774 Jun 01, all at the Moon's descending node[4]
- Predictions were generated using the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides with ΔT = 80.2 seconds and "DO NOT include the effects of mountains and valleys along the edge of the Moon"; limb corrections may shift the path limits by ~1-3 kilometers, change durations by ~1-3 seconds and move the exact location of Greatest Duration by ~10-20 kilometers, with more detailed predictions "normally posted 12-18 months before each eclipse"[1][3]
- All the calculations are by Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who "assumes full responsibility for their accuracy"[1][2][3][4]
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- [1]75%eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2035Mar09Apath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Mar 9, 2035 ✓· 25% of score
NASA's[2][3][4] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 23:04:32 UT on 2035-03-09 (23:05:53 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 140. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]85%Solar Eclipses: 2031 - 2040eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 25% of score
NASA’s[1][3][4] decade table, the only one of these pages that names places: its row for 2035 Mar 09 gives "[Annular: New Zealand, Pacific]" and the region of visibility as "Australia, New Zealand, s Pacific, Mexico, Antarctica".
- [3]90%Annular Solar Eclipse of 2035-03-09 - Google map of the patheclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 25% of score
NASA's[1][2][4] interactive map of this eclipse, showing the central path, the points of greatest eclipse and greatest duration, and local circumstances anywhere on the map.
- [4]80%Saros series 140eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 25% of score
The saros series this eclipse belongs to, listing every eclipse in the same 18-year family and where each one fell.[1]
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