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- Nov 25, 203075% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Botswana
- A total solar eclipse on 2030 Nov 25, catalogued by NASA/GSFC as sequence 09576, relative number 10, of Saros series 133[1][2][3]
- Greatest Eclipse falls at 06:50:19.2 UT at 43°36.8'S 071°14.5'E, with the Sun 67.0° up, a path 169.3 km wide and a central duration of 03m43.5s[1]
- Greatest Duration comes a little later, at 06:51:53 UT at 43°43'S 072°02'E, path width 169.2 km, central duration 03m43.6s, the figure the Google-map page also gives: ‘In this case, the Greatest Duration is 03m43.6s’[1][2]
- The umbral shadow is tabulated at 120-second intervals across 95 timed rows from 05:16 UT to 08:24 UT, the central line running from 16°13.0'S 001°36.5'E at the opening limits to 26°20.6'S 151°11.7'E at the closing limits[1]
- At the path’s ends totality is far shorter — 01m30.8s over a 117 km path at the start and 01m32.1s over 118 km at the end — against 03m43.5s at greatest eclipse[1]
- The Saros 133 catalog gives the same instant in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 2030 Nov 25 06:51:37 TD with ΔT = 78 s, gamma -0.3867, magnitude 1.0468, path width 169 km and central duration 03m44s — rounded against the path page’s 169.3 km and 03m43.5s[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 = 77.3 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 2012 Nov 13 (04m02s) and precedes 2048 Dec 05 (03m28s) as the series’ durations shorten[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/SE2030Nov25Tpath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Nov 25, 2030 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 06:50:19 UT on 2030-11-25 (06:51:37 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 2030-11-25 - 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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