An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, January 26, 2009, with a magnitude of 0.9282. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 3.3 days after apogee (on January 23, 2009, at 0:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
The eclipse was visible from a narrow corridor beginning in the south Atlantic Ocean and sweeping eastward 900 km south of Africa, slowly curving northeast through the Indian Ocean. Its first landfall was in the Cocos Islands followed by southern Sumatra and western Java. It continued somewhat more easterly across central Borneo, across the northwestern edge of Celebes, then ending just before Mindanao, Philippines. The duration of annularity at greatest eclipse lasted 7 minutes, 53.58 seconds, but at greatest duration lasted 7 minutes, 56.05 seconds. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Southern Africa, East Antarctica, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Australia.
The date of this eclipse was the exact day of Lunar New Year, celebrated in parts of Asia, where this eclipse was visible.
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Eclipse timing Places experiencing annular eclipse Solar Eclipse of January 26, 2009(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseStart of annular eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of annular eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of annularity (min:s)Duration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Cocos (Keeling) Islands Bantam 14:25:28 15:53:45 15:56:09 15:58:34 17:12:49 4:49 2:47 85.37% Serang 15:19:40 16:39:36 16:40:46 16:41:58 17:50:29 2:22 2:31 84.81% Bandar Lampung 15:19:49 16:38:25 16:41:27 16:44:28 17:51:30 6:03 2:32 84.83% Ketapang 15:29:58 16:44:14 16:47:10 16:50:06 17:54:07 5:52 2:29 84.53% Samarinda 16:36:45 17:47:53 17:49:00 17:50:08 18:28:12 (sunset) 2:15 1:51 84.18% Sangatta 16:38:07 17:47:21 17:49:57 17:52:34 18:25:16 (sunset) 5:13 1:47 84.14%References:
Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of January 26, 2009(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Windhoek 07:01:44 08:04:05 09:16:49 2:15 29.07% Edinburgh of the Seven Seas 05:58:02 (sunrise) 06:07:58 07:15:07 1:17 82.16% Cape Town 06:58:48 08:12:03 09:37:28 2:39 63.42% Gaborone 07:06:02 08:15:35 09:37:54 2:32 30.34% Johannesburg 07:06:26 08:19:31 09:46:11 2:40 34.17% Maseru 07:03:48 08:19:50 09:49:43 2:46 44.08% Mbabane 07:09:26 08:25:11 09:54:54 2:45 33.71% Bouvet Island 06:23:07 07:26:30 08:35:15 2:12 48.36% Maputo 07:11:26 08:28:00 09:58:35 2:47 32.37% Marion Island 08:18:48 09:44:10 11:18:19 3:00 81.13% Port-aux-Français 11:05:48 12:35:10 14:02:13 2:56 52.02% Saint-Denis 10:03:50 11:45:34 13:24:59 3:21 30.86% Port Louis 11:10:42 12:54:22 14:32:58 3:22 32.06% Île Amsterdam 11:24:01 13:05:39 14:38:20 3:14 69.88% Diego Garcia 13:30:35 15:05:58 16:26:41 2:56 31.90% Darwin 18:03:57 19:03:52 19:19:54 (sunset) 1:16 41.30% Flying Fish Cove 15:12:06 16:34:14 17:44:45 2:33 76.91% Dili 17:33:52 18:39:25 19:05:26 (sunset) 1:32 55.48% Jakarta 15:20:23 16:40:58 17:50:18 2:30 84.50% General Santos 16:46:21 17:44:51 17:47:08 (sunset) 1:01 74.77% Singapore 16:30:01 17:49:26 18:57:54 2:28 72.28% Manila 16:55:04 17:49:44 17:52:09 (sunset) 0:57 51.31% Kuala Lumpur 16:31:51 17:50:54 18:59:03 2:27 63.75% Bandar Seri Begawan 16:42:12 17:54:05 18:29:43 (sunset) 1:48 77.19% Zamboanga City 16:46:38 17:54:26 17:58:27 (sunset) 1:12 78.93% Hong Kong 17:07:36 17:56:22 18:07:53 (sunset) 1:00 25.10% Ho Chi Minh City 15:48:12 16:58:37 17:54:39 (sunset) 2:06 49.60% Phnom Penh 15:49:13 16:59:01 18:00:32 2:11 44.97% Bangkok 15:53:02 16:59:50 17:58:57 2:06 33.11% Hanoi 16:08:07 17:03:33 17:43:11 (sunset) 1:35 20.98%References:
Gallery Progression from Colombo, Sri Lanka
Eclipse details Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
+January 26, 2009 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2009 January 26 at 04:57:42.7 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2009 January 26 at 06:03:44.5 UTC First Central Line 2009 January 26 at 06:06:54.1 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2009 January 26 at 06:10:04.0 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2009 January 26 at 07:22:11.5 UTC Greatest Duration 2009 January 26 at 07:43:23.8 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2009 January 26 at 07:47:30.2 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2009 January 26 at 07:56:23.1 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2009 January 26 at 07:59:44.5 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2009 January 26 at 08:37:36.7 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2009 January 26 at 09:49:34.5 UTC Last Central Line 2009 January 26 at 09:52:42.3 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2009 January 26 at 09:55:49.6 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2009 January 26 at 11:01:46.9 UTC
+January 26, 2009 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.92825 Eclipse Obscuration 0.86165 Gamma −0.28197 Sun Right Ascension 20h35m32.8s Sun Declination -18°38'55.0" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'14.6" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 20h35m55.2s Moon Declination -18°53'18.2" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'51.6" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'32.2" ΔT 65.8 s
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
+ Eclipse season of January–February 2009 January 26Ascending node (new moon) February 9Descending node (full moon) Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 131 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 143
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2009 An annular solar eclipse on January 26. A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 9. A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7. A total solar eclipse on July 22. A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 6. A partial lunar eclipse on December 31.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 9, 2016
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of January 21, 2000 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 31, 2018
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019
Solar Saros 131 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 15, 1991 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 16, 1980 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 5, 2038
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 27, 2095
Solar eclipses of 2008–2011
Saros 131
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
Notes
References Annular Solar Eclipse of 2009 Jan 26, F. Espenak, NASA’s GSFC PDF
Photos: Spaceweather.com eclipse gallery Photos of solar eclipse around the world Annular solar eclipse in Indonesia Astronomy Picture of the Day, January 28, 2009, A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay, Philippines