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Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses Brazil

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NASA's^[1][2][3][4] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 15:07:46 UT on 2028-01-26 (15:08:58 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 141. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.

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Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses Brazil

Greatest eclipse falls at 15:07:46 UT on 2028-01-26, where the annular phase lasts 10 minutes 27 seconds on a path 323.0 km wide; the longest annularity anywhere on the track is 10m30.6s. The path of annularity crosses Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain and Portugal, and a partial eclipse is visible from eastern North America, C. & South America, western Europe and northwestern Africa.

Greatest eclipse of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2028 Jan 26 falls at 15:07:46.5 UT at 02°57.5'N 051°33.7'W, with the Sun 67.0° high, a path 323.0 km wide and a central duration of 10m27.1s^[1]
Annularity is longest not at greatest eclipse but at the point of Greatest Duration, 14:53:08 UT at 00°48'N 054°39'W, where the path is 328.7 km wide and the central duration reaches 10m30.6s^[1][3]
The path of annularity crosses Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain and Portugal, while the partial eclipse is visible from eastern North America, Central and South America, western Europe and northwestern Africa^[2]
The eclipse belongs to Saros series 141, with an eclipse magnitude of 0.9208 (0.921 in the decade table), gamma 0.3901 and a path 323 km wide; both catalogues give greatest eclipse in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 15:08:59^[4] and 15:08:58^[2], which is the same instant as the source's 15:07:46.5 UT given ΔT = 71.9 seconds^[1][2][4]
The source page tabulates the Moon's antumbral shadow at 120-second intervals in WGS 84 coordinates - 109 timed rows from 13:20 UT to 16:56 UT plus opening and closing "Limits" rows - giving 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 141 runs 1244.08 years across 70 eclipses (41 annular, 29 partial, sequence "7P 41A 22P"), from a partial eclipse on 1613 May 19 to a partial eclipse on 2857 Jun 13, all at the Moon's ascending node; its longest annular eclipse is 1955 Dec 14 at 12m09s^[4]
Predictions were generated using the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides with ΔT = 71.9 seconds and "DO NOT include the effects of mountains and valleys along the edge of the Moon"; lunar limb corrections may shift the path limits by ~1-3 kilometers and change the duration by ~1-3 seconds, and more detailed predictions "are 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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eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2028Jan26Apath.html
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Jan 26, 2028 ✓· 25% of score
NASA's^[2][3][4] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 15:07:46 UT on 2028-01-26 (15:08:58 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 141. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
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Solar Eclipses: 2021 - 2030
eclipse.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 2028 Jan 26 gives "[Annular: Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain, Portugal]" and the region of visibility as "e N. America, C. & S. America, w Europe, nw Africa".
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Annular Solar Eclipse of 2028-01-26 - Google map of the path
eclipse.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.
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Saros series 141
eclipse.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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