A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit between Sunday, July 30 and Monday, July 31, 2000, with a magnitude of 0.6034. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
This was the third of four partial solar eclipses in 2000, with the others occurring on February 5, July 1, and December 25.
A partial eclipse was visible for parts of northern Russia, northeastern Scandinavia, Alaska, western Canada, Greenland, and the western United States.
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Eclipse timing Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of July 31, 2000(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Samara 05:54:53 (sunrise) 05:59:51 06:21:46 0:27 4.05% Yekaterinburg 06:38:52 07:01:06 07:23:50 0:45 3.89% Oral 05:57:54 (sunrise) 06:01:48 06:13:56 0:16 1.62% Izhevsk 05:37:32 06:03:14 06:29:32 0:52 6.70% Belushya Guba 04:45:40 05:24:48 06:04:49 1:19 23.75% Murmansk 04:46:42 05:25:54 06:05:55 1:19 28.59% Rovaniemi 03:52:31 (sunrise) 04:25:55 05:05:14 1:13 29.45% Kiruna 02:52:43 (sunrise) 03:29:47 04:10:04 1:17 32.82% Tromsø 02:51:42 03:32:08 04:13:14 1:22 34.58% Moscow 05:33:03 (sunrise) 05:38:31 05:38:45 0:06 0.02% Longyearbyen 02:58:46 03:42:21 04:26:25 1:28 39.18% Danmarkshavn 01:08:19 01:52:28 02:36:48 1:28 46.42% Pituffik 22:25:16 23:11:00 23:56:17 1:31 49.80% Pond Inlet 20:32:52 21:18:16 22:03:02 1:30 50.37% Resolute 20:34:34 21:20:57 22:06:31 1:32 47.43% Anadyr 14:52:15 15:27:10 16:01:23 1:09 7.66% Coral Harbour 20:46:28 21:30:07 21:41:05 (sunset) 0:55 48.77% Baker Lake 20:51:34 21:35:52 22:19:04 1:28 46.00% Inuvik 19:51:24 20:37:24 21:21:58 1:31 33.88% Regina 20:18:36 20:40:54 20:44:43 (sunset) 0:26 21.40% Salt Lake City 20:41:35 20:43:06 20:44:38 (sunset) 0:03 0.37% Anchorage 18:07:36 18:49:19 19:29:30 1:22 19.49% Whitehorse 19:08:05 19:51:23 20:33:03 1:25 27.30% Juneau 18:13:29 18:55:38 19:36:10 1:23 25.34% Unalaska 18:32:10 18:57:08 19:21:26 0:49 2.90% Edmonton 20:17:19 20:58:02 21:32:38 (sunset) 1:15 31.28% Calgary 20:22:23 21:01:44 21:24:45 (sunset) 1:02 28.21% Vancouver 19:30:12 20:07:50 20:44:02 1:14 21.61% Seattle 19:33:27 20:09:56 20:45:02 1:12 19.95% San Francisco 19:56:52 20:15:06 20:19:40 (sunset) 0:23 6.21%References:
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.
+July 31, 2000 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2000 July 31 at 00:38:31.2 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2000 July 31 at 01:53:07.4 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2000 July 31 at 02:14:07.7 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2000 July 31 at 02:26:13.1 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2000 July 31 at 03:49:55.6 UTC
+July 31, 2000 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.60337 Eclipse Obscuration 0.51669 Gamma 1.21664 Sun Right Ascension 08h42m24.7s Sun Declination +18°13'08.6" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'45.4" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 08h43m16.7s Moon Declination +19°26'16.2" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'38.8" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'05.5" ΔT 63.9 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
+ Eclipse season of July 2000 July 1Ascending node (new moon) July 16Descending node (full moon) July 31Ascending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 117 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 129 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 155
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2000 A total lunar eclipse on January 21. A partial solar eclipse on February 5. A partial solar eclipse on July 1. A total lunar eclipse on July 16. A partial solar eclipse on July 31. A partial solar eclipse on December 25.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 12, 1996
Tzolkinex Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 11, 2007
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of July 26, 1991 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 6, 2009
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 31, 1989 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 1, 2011
Solar Saros 155 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 20, 1982 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 2029
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 30, 1913 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 1, 2087
Solar eclipses of 1997–2000
Saros 155
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
Notes
References
External links
Partial Solar Eclipse: July 30/31, 2000 www.mreclipse.com Partial Solar Eclipse of 2000 July 30/31 by Fred Espenak (Spokane, WA) Video of partial solar eclipse in Nizhny Tagil, Russia