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]
The partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
117 | July 1, 2000 Partial |
−1.28214 | 122 Partial projection in Minneapolis, MN, USA |
December 25, 2000 Partial |
1.13669 | |
127 Totality in Lusaka, Zambia |
June 21, 2001 Total |
−0.57013 | 132 Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA |
December 14, 2001 Annular |
0.40885 | |
137 Partial in Los Angeles, CA, USA |
June 10, 2002 Annular |
0.19933 | 142 Totality in Woomera, South Australia |
December 4, 2002 Total |
−0.30204 | |
147 Annularity in Culloden, Scotland |
May 31, 2003 Annular |
0.99598 | 152 |
November 23, 2003 Total |
−0.96381 |
- ^ 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.