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- Mar 20, 203475% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Chad
- A total solar eclipse on 2034 Mar 20, catalogued by NASA/GSFC as sequence 09583, relative number 17, of Saros series 130[1][2][3]
- Greatest Eclipse falls at 10:17:25.4 UT at 16°03.6'N 022°14.0'E, with the Sun 73.1° up, a path 159.1 km wide and a central duration of 04m09.3s[1]
- Greatest Duration is a minute later, at 10:18:22 UT at 16°14'N 022°31'E, path width 159.0 km and the same 04m09.3s duration, which the Google-map page also states[1][2]
- The umbral shadow is tabulated at 120-second intervals across 100 timed rows from 08:38 UT to 11:56 UT, the central line running from 00°56.5'S 037°37.4'W at the opening limits to 34°47.0'N 092°33.3'E at the closing limits[1]
- At the path’s ends totality is far shorter — 01m32.7s over a 99 km path at the start and 01m35.7s over 102 km at the end — against 04m09.3s at greatest eclipse[1]
- The Saros 130 catalog gives the same instant in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 2034 Mar 20 10:18:45 TD with ΔT = 80 s, gamma 0.2894, magnitude 1.0458, path width 159 km and central duration 04m09s — matching the path page’s 159.1 km and 04m09.3s[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 = 79.5 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]
- Saros 130 runs 1298.17 years over 73 solar eclipses, 43 of them total and none annular, from a partial on 1096 Aug 20 to a partial on 2394 Oct 25; this eclipse is at the series’ plateau, between 2016 Mar 09 (04m09s) and 2052 Mar 30 (04m08s)[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/SE2034Mar20Tpath.htmleclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Mar 20, 2034 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 10:17:25 UT on 2034-03-20 (10:18:45 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 130. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
- [2]90%Total Solar Eclipse of 2034-03-20 - 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 130eclipse.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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