Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001

21st-century total solar eclipse

Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001

Totality from Lusaka, Zambia by the Williams College eclipse expedition

Map

Type of eclipse
Nature| Total
Gamma| -0.5701
Magnitude| 1.0495
Maximum eclipse
Duration| 297 sec (4 m 57 s)
Coordinates| 11°18′S 2°42′E﻿ / ﻿11.3°S 2.7°E﻿ / -11.3; 2.7
Max. width of band| 200 km (120 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin| 9:33:04
(U1) Total begin| 10:35:59
Greatest eclipse| 12:04:46
(U4) Total end| 13:31:37
(P4) Partial end| 14:35:25
References
Saros| 127 (57 of 82)
Catalog # (SE5000)| 9511

A total solar eclipse took place on June 21 2001 with a magnitude of 1.0495. It was the first solar eclipse of the 21st century. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring 2.2 days before perigee (June 23, 2001), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. Depending on the zone it, could be seen June 20-22

## Visibility[edit]

It was visible from a narrow corridor in the southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Africa, including Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the southern tip of Malawi, and Madagascar. A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including eastern South America and most of Africa.

## Images[edit]

## Related eclipses[edit]

### Eclipses of 2001[edit]

* A total lunar eclipse on January 9.
* A total solar eclipse on June 21.
* A partial lunar eclipse on July 5.
* An annular solar eclipse on December 14.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on December 30.

### Tzolkinex[edit]

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of May 10, 1994

* Followed: Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008

### Half-Saros[edit]

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of June 15, 1992

* Followed: Lunar eclipse of June 26, 2010

### Tritos[edit]

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of July 22, 1990

* Followed: Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

### Solar Saros 127[edit]

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of June 11, 1983

* Followed: Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019

### Inex[edit]

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972

* Followed: Solar eclipse of June 1, 2030

### Solar eclipses 2000–2003[edit]

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[1]

Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000–2003  Ascending node  |  | Descending node

|
|

Saros  | Map  | Gamma  | Saros  | Map  | Gamma
117  | 2000 July 01

Partial (south)  | -1.28214  | 122  | 2000 December 25

Partial (north)  | 1.13669
127

Totality from Lusaka, Zambia | 2001 June 21

Total  | -0.57013  | 132

Partial from Minneapolis, MN | 2001 December 14

Annular  | 0.40885
137

Partial from Los Angeles, CA | 2002 June 10

Annular  | 0.19933  | 142

Totality from Woomera | 2002 December 04

Total  | -0.30204
147

Culloden, Scotland | 2003 May 31

Annular  | 0.99598  | 152  | 2003 November 23

Total  | -0.96381

### Saros 127[edit]

It is a part of Saros cycle 127, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 82 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 10, 991 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 14, 1352 through August 15, 2091. There are no annular eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 82 as a partial eclipse on March 21, 2452. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 40 seconds on August 30, 1532. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.[2]

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200

52  | 53  | 54

April 28, 1911 |
May 9, 1929 |
May 20, 1947
55  | 56  | 57

May 30, 1965 |
June 11, 1983 |
June 21, 2001
58  | 59  | 60

July 2, 2019 |
July 13, 2037 |
July 24, 2055
61  | 62  | 63

August 3, 2073 |
August 15, 2091 | August 26, 2109 (Partial)
64  | 65  | 66
September 6, 2127 (Partial  | September 16, 2145 (Partial)  | September 28, 2163 (Partial)
67  | 68
October 8, 2181 (Partial)  | October 19, 2199 (Partial)

### Tritos series[edit]

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1901 and 2100

March 29, 1903
(Saros 118)  |
February 25, 1914
(Saros 119)  |
January 24, 1925
(Saros 120)

December 25, 1935
(Saros 121)  |
November 23, 1946
(Saros 122)  |
October 23, 1957
(Saros 123)

September 22, 1968
(Saros 124)  |
August 22, 1979
(Saros 125)  |
July 22, 1990
(Saros 126)

June 21, 2001
(Saros 127)  |
May 20, 2012
(Saros 128)  |
April 20, 2023
(Saros 129)

March 20, 2034
(Saros 130)  |
February 16, 2045
(Saros 131)  |
January 16, 2056
(Saros 132)

December 17, 2066
(Saros 133)  |
November 15, 2077
(Saros 134)  |
October 14, 2088
(Saros 135)

September 14, 2099
(Saros 136)  |

### Metonic series[edit]

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058

June 21  | April 8–9  | January 26  | November 13–14  | September 1–2
107  | 109  | 111  | 113  | 115
June 21, 1963  | April 9, 1967  | January 26, 1971  | November 14, 1974  | September 2, 1978
117  | 119  | 121  | 123  | 125

June 21, 1982 |
April 9, 1986 |
January 26, 1990 |
November 13, 1993 |
September 2, 1997
127  | 129  | 131  | 133  | 135

June 21, 2001 |
April 8, 2005 |
January 26, 2009 |
November 13, 2012 |
September 1, 2016
137  | 139  | 141  | 143  | 145

June 21, 2020 |
April 8, 2024 |
January 26, 2028 |
November 14, 2031 |
September 2, 2035
147  | 149  | 151  | 153  | 155

June 21, 2039 |
April 9, 2043 |
January 26, 2047 |
November 14, 2050 |
September 2, 2054
157

June 21, 2058

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
2. ^ "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

## References[edit]

* Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson. "Total Solar Eclipse of 2001 June 21". NASA, November 2004.
* Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
* Google interactive map
* Besselian elements
* Map Google

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Solar eclipse of 2001 June 21.

Photos:

* Spaceweather.com solar eclipse gallery
* Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site. Zambia
* Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site. Angola
* KryssTal - Eclipse in Zimbabwe \- in a school by the Ruya River.
* Images from Zimbabwe by Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society
* Eclipse in African Skies, APOD 6/22/2001, totality from Lusaka, Zambia
* Bakasa Eclipse Sequence, APOD 7/6/2001, totality from Bakasa, Zimbabwe
* A Total Eclipse Over Africa, APOD 7/11/2001, totality from Malambanyama, Zambia
* Madagascar Totality, APOD 7/26/2001, from southern Madagascar
* Eclipse Over Acacia, APOD 12/3/2002, from Chisamba, Zambia
* Moon AND Sun, APOD 11/22/2003, totality from Chisamba, Zambia

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