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- Aug 23, 204475% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Canada
- A total solar eclipse on 2044 Aug 23, catalogued by NASA/GSFC as sequence 09606, relative number 16, of Saros series 126[1][2][3]
- Greatest Eclipse falls at 01:15:33.6 UT at 64°20.2'N 120°25.7'W, with the Sun only 15.4° up, a path 453.0 km wide and a central duration of 02m03.8s[1]
- Greatest Duration is 25 seconds earlier at 01:15:08 UT at 64°34'N 120°22'W, path width 451.9 km and the same 02m03.8s duration, which the Google-map page also states[1][2]
- The umbral path is brief, tabulated from 00:48 to 01:42 UT: the central line runs from 74°27.0'N 055°32.2'W (443 km wide, 01m38.0s) down to 47°07.8'N 102°56.5'W (431 km, 01m37.1s), with central-line path width between about 426 km and 504 km and a Moon/Sun diameter ratio of 1.032 to 1.036[1]
- The Saros 126 catalog gives the same instant in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 2044 Aug 23 01:17:02 TD with ΔT = 88 s, gamma 0.9613, magnitude 1.0364, path width 453 km and central duration 02m04s — matching the path page’s 453.0 km and 02m03.8s[1][3]
- Totality can only be seen between the blue northern and southern path limits and is longest on the red central line; yellow lines mark maximum eclipse at 10-minute intervals[2]
- Predictions use the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides with ΔT = 87.5 seconds, and exclude the lunar limb profile, whose corrections ‘may shift the limits of the eclipse path north or south by ~1-3 kilometers, and change the eclipse duration by ~1-3 seconds’[1][2]
- This is the last total eclipse of Saros 126: the series runs 1280.14 years over 72 eclipses from a partial on 1179 Mar 10 to a partial on 2459 May 03, with only 10 total among 28 annular, and turns to closing partials with 2062 Sep 03[3]
- All calculations are by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, who ‘assumes full responsibility for their accuracy’[1][2][3]
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- [1]75%eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2044Aug23Tpath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Aug 23, 2044 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 01:15:33 UT on 2044-08-23 (01:17:01 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 126. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]90%Total Solar Eclipse of 2044-08-23 - 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 126eclipse.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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