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Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Angola
- NASA/GSFC (Fred Espenak) predicts a total solar eclipse on 2041 Apr 30, with greatest eclipse at 11:50:55.3 UT at latitude 09°37.3'S, longitude 012°11.3'E[1]
- Path width at greatest eclipse is 71.7 km and the central-line duration there is 01m50.6s, with the Sun 63.2° above the horizon[1]
- Greatest duration falls a little later, at 11:52:03 UT at 09°23'S 012°28'E, also 01m50.6s on the central line[1]; the interactive map page gives the same figure, "In this case, the Greatest Duration is 01m50.6s"[2]
- The Saros catalogue lists the same eclipse with its time in Terrestrial Dynamical Time rather than UT - "2041 Apr 30 11:52:21 TD" - and rounds the figures to a 72 km path and 01m51s of totality, magnitude 1.0189, gamma -0.4492, at 9.6S 12.2E with the Sun at 63 degrees[3]; where the two disagree, the dedicated path page's 11:50:55.3 UT and 71.7 km are the more precise statement of the same instant[1][3]
- The umbral shadow is tabulated at 120-second intervals across 96 timed rows from 10:16 UT to 13:26 UT, running from about 44°32'S 034°55'W in the far South Atlantic to 00°38'S 057°46'E in the Indian Ocean, with the outer "Limits" rows at 48°29'S 046°44'W and 02°45'S 066°38'E[1]
- Totality is only visible from inside the central path: the page states a viewer "MUST be somewhere within the central path (between the blue lines) to see the total phase of the eclipse", and the eclipse is longest on the central line[2]
- The eclipse belongs to Saros 129, a series of 80 solar eclipses running 1103 Oct 03 to 2528 Feb 21 (1424.38 years; 39 partial, 29 annular, 9 total, 3 hybrid), all at the Moon's ascending node[3]
- Within that series 2041 Apr 30 is the shortest total eclipse, at 01m51s, against the longest total of 03m43s on 2131 Jun 25[3]
- Predictions were generated using the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides and a value of ΔT = 84.8 seconds[1][2]
- The predictions "DO NOT include the effects of mountains and valleys along the edge of the Moon"; lunar limb 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], and "The exact location of Greatest Duration may also change by ~10-20 kilometers"[2]
- More detailed predictions including the lunar limb profile "are normally posted 12-18 months before each eclipse"[1][2]
- None of the three pages carries a labelled publication date; they end with the bare stamps "2014 Feb 26"[1], "2014 Mar 14"[2] and "2009 Sep 26"[3]
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- [1]75%eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2041Apr30Tpath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Apr 30, 2041 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 11:50:55 UT on 2041-04-30 (11:52:20 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 129. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]90%Total Solar Eclipse of 2041-04-30 - 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 129eclipse.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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