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01/04/11 – Ephemeris – Solar eclipse for the Old World today

January 4, 2011

Tuesday, January 4th.  The sun will rise at 8:19.  It’ll be up for 8 hours and 56 minutes, setting at 5:15.  The moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

There is a partial solar eclipse in progress for Europe, North Africa and as far a China.  This is the companion to the lunar eclipse we had December 21st.  Since the lunar eclipse was total, this solar eclipse is not centrally aligned.  Eclipses occur in seasons with an interval of a bit less than 6 months[, making a complete eclipse year of 346 days].  Eclipses generally occur in pairs in each eclipse season, one lunar eclipse followed two weeks later by a solar eclipse or vice versa.  On rare occasions three eclipse cam occur at two week intervals:  A partial solar eclipse , a very central lunar eclipse and another partial solar eclipse.  Such a triad will occur this year.  A partial solar eclipse on June 1st., a total lunar eclipse June 15th and another partial solar eclipse July 1st.  Non will be visible from here.

*Text in brackets was omitted due to time constraints

* Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Check out the NASA Eclipse web site for 2011.

 

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