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- Jan 5, 203875% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses Cuba
- An annular solar eclipse on 2038 Jan 05, its antumbral shadow path computed by Fred Espenak for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center[1][2]
- Greatest eclipse falls at 13:45:47.9 UT at 02°05.7'N, 025°26.7'W in the equatorial Atlantic, with the Sun 65.3° up, a path 107.2 km wide and a central-line duration of 03m18.5s[1]
- Greatest duration comes about seven minutes later and slightly east, at 13:52:31 UT at 02°11'N, 023°40'W, where the path is 107.4 km wide and annularity lasts 03m18.6s[1]; the Google map page gives the same figure, "In this case, the Greatest Duration is 03m18.6s"[2]
- The saros catalogue lists the same eclipse as 2038 Jan 05 at 13:47:11 TD (Terrestrial Dynamical Time, against the path table's Universal Time) at 2.1°N 25.4°W, path width 107 km and central duration 03m18s - it rounds down where the pin rounds up to 3 minutes 19 seconds[3]
- The path table gives 101 timed rows at 120-second intervals from 12:06 UT to 15:26 UT, plus opening and closing "Limits" rows, in WGS 84 coordinates[1]
- The central line starts at 12:06 UT near 18°30.5'N, 072°06.1'W over Hispaniola and ends at 15:26 UT near 20°33.1'N, 022°18.9'E in north-east Africa; the outer limit rows run from 22°01.1'N, 080°07.8'W in Cuba to 23°33.8'N, 029°11.1'E in Egypt[1]
- The path is narrowest near greatest eclipse (about 107 km) and widens to 144-159 km at the ends, where annularity shortens to about 02m47-02m55s[1]
- The eclipse is member 13 of Saros 132 (sequence number 09592), with gamma 0.4169 and eclipse magnitude 0.9728[3]
- Saros 132 runs 1262.11 years from a partial eclipse on 1208 Aug 13 to a partial eclipse on 2470 Sep 25, occurs at the Moon's descending node and holds 71 eclipses in the sequence 20P 33A 2H 7T 9P; its longest annular was 1641 May 09 at 06m56s[3]
- Predictions use the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides with ΔT = 82.3 seconds[1][2]; the catalogue row carries ΔT = 83 s[3]
- Annularity is visible only inside the central path between the blue limit lines on the map and is longest on the central line, with a green GE marker at greatest eclipse and a magenta GD marker at greatest duration[2]
- The predictions "DO NOT include the effects of mountains and valleys along the edge of the Moon"; limb corrections may shift the path limits north or south by ~1-3 km and change durations by ~1-3 seconds, and more detailed predictions "are normally posted 12-18 months before each eclipse"[1][2]
References 382% CONFIDENCE
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- [1]75%eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2038Jan05Apath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Jan 5, 2038 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 13:45:47 UT on 2038-01-05 (13:47:10 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 132. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]90%Annular Solar Eclipse of 2038-01-05 - Google map of the patheclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 33% of score
NASA's[1][3] interactive map of this eclipse, showing the central path, the points of greatest eclipse and greatest duration, and local circumstances anywhere on the map.
- [3]80%Saros series 132eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 33% 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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