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- Dec 5, 204875% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Chile
- A total solar eclipse on 2048 Dec 05, catalogued by NASA/GSFC as sequence 09616, relative number 11, of Saros series 133[1][2][3]
- Greatest Eclipse falls at 15:33:55.7 UT at 46°08.2'S 056°22.5'W, with the Sun 66.4° up, a path 160.3 km wide and a central duration of 03m27.6s[1]
- Greatest Duration comes 45 seconds later at 15:34:40 UT at 46°09'S 055°58'W, with the same 160.3 km width and the same 03m27.6s duration, which the Google-map page also states: ‘In this case, the Greatest Duration is 03m27.6s’[1][2]
- The umbral shadow is tabulated at 120-second intervals across 95 timed rows from 14:00 UT to 17:08 UT, the central line running from 20°39.0'S 131°02.6'W at the opening limits to 22°36.6'S 020°29.0'E at the closing limits[1]
- At the path’s ends totality is far shorter — 01m22.2s over a 108 km path at the start and 01m23.6s over 109 km at the end — against 03m27.6s at greatest eclipse[1]
- The Saros 133 catalog gives the same instant in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 2048 Dec 05 15:35:27 TD with ΔT = 92 s, gamma -0.3973, magnitude 1.0440, path width 160 km and central duration 03m28s — rounded against the path page’s 160.3 km and 03m27.6s[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 = 91.1 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]
- Saros 133 runs 1280.14 years over 72 solar eclipses, 46 of them total, from a partial on 1219 Jul 13 to a partial on 2499 Sep 05; this eclipse follows 2030 Nov 25 (03m44s) and precedes 2066 Dec 17 (03m14s)[3]
- All calculations are by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, who ‘assumes full responsibility for their accuracy’[1][2][3]
References 382% CONFIDENCE
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- [1]75%eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2048Dec05Tpath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Dec 5, 2048 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 15:33:55 UT on 2048-12-05 (15:35:27 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 133. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]90%Total Solar Eclipse of 2048-12-05 - 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 133eclipse.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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