ECLIPSE  EVENTS  OF  2008

In the year 2008, there are four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon

1. FEBRUARY 7..…..…........ Annular eclipse of the SUN

2. FEBRUARY 21 .................Total eclipse of the MOON

3. AUGUST 1 ........................ Total eclipse of the SUN

4. AUGUST 16 ...................... Partial eclipse of the MOON

 

 1. Annular eclipse of the SUN, Magha 18, 1929 S.E. ; February 7, 2008 A.D. ; Thursday

The eclipse is not visible in INDIA

Area of visibility: The eclipse will be visible in the region covering most of Antarctica, New Zealand, The south-eastern parts of Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Western Samoa.

 

CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ECLIPSE

 

Universal Time

Indian Standard Time

Latitude

Longitude

Eclipse begins

Central Eclipse begins

Greatest Eclipse #

Central Eclipse ends

Eclipse ends

7d   1h  38.5m

7d   3h  24.0m

7d   3h  55.0m

7d   4h  26.6m

7d   6h  11.9m

7d   7h  08.5m

7d   8h  54.0m

7d   9h  25.0m

7d   9h  56.6m

7d  11h  41.9m

- 57º  53'.8

- 72º  56'.9

- 67º  35'.9

- 47º  46'.5

- 13º  59'.4

+ 42º  35'.4

- 72º  35'.7

- 150º  26'.4

- 135º  20'.2

- 175º  29'.3

# Magnitude of the eclipse = 0.965; Duration of annular phase = 2m 11s

 

 

2. Total eclipse of the Moon, Phalguna 2, 1929 S.E. ; February 21, 2008 A.D. ; Thursday .

The eclipse is partly visible in INDIA

Area of visibility : The eclipse will be visible in the region covering Arctic, Western parts of Asia, most of Arabia, Africa except Madagascar, Europe and Americas.

The beginning of the umbral  phase will be visible from Indian Ocean, Crazet Island, Mauritius, Maldives, Extreme north Western tip of India, western parts of Russia.

The ending will be visible in Pacific Ocean, western parts of Alaska and extreme north eastern part of Russia.

 CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ECLIPSE

 

Universal Time

Indian Standard Time

Angles of Position from the North Point of Moon's limb

(N.E.S.W)

The Moon being in the Zenith in

Latitude

Longitude

 Moon enters penumbra

Moon enters umbra

Moon enters totality

Middle of the eclipse #

Moon leaves totality

Moon leaves umbra

Moon leaves penumbra

21d   0h  34.9m

21d   1h  42.9m

21d   3h  00.5m

21d   3h  26.0m

21d   3h  51.5m

21d   5h  09.1m

21d   6h  17.2m

21d   6h  04.9m

21d   7h  12.9m

21d   8h  30.5m

21d   8h  56.0m

21d   9h  21.5m

21d  10h  39.1m

21d  11h  47.2m

102º

93º

56º

-

357º

320º

311º

+ 11º  10'

+ 10º  53'

+ 10º  34'

+ 10º  28'

+ 10º  22'

+ 10º  03'

+ 09º  46'

- 6º  45'

- 23º  17'

- 42º  05'

- 48º  15'

- 54º  25'

- 73º  14'

- 89º  45'

# Magnitude of the eclipse = 1.111

 

LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO INDIA

PLACES WHERE BEGINNING OF THE PARTIAL PHASE WILL BE SEEN.

ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE PARTIAL PHASE OF THE ECLIPSE WILL BE VISIBLE

AT THE EXTREME NORTH- WESTERN PARTS OF INDIA.

THE ECLIPSE WILL BEGIN WHEN THE MOON WILL BE NEAR THE WESTERN HORIZON.

Eclipse ends at 7h 13m I.S.T.

Place

Moon set (Upper Limb) (I.S.T.)

 Bhuj

7h  19m

Dwarka

7h  21m

Jamnagar

7h  17m

Jaisalmer

7h  18m

Lakhpat

7h  24m

Porbandar

7h  19m

 

 3. Total eclipse of the SUN, Sravana 10, 1930 S.E. ; August 1, 2008 A.D. ; Friday

The eclipse is visible in INDIA as partial phase.

 

Area of visibility : The eclipse will be visible in the region covering northern and eastern parts of North America, Greenland, northern Europe and Asia except Japan.

 

CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ECLIPSE

 

Universal Time

Indian Standard Time

Latitude

Longitude

Eclipse begins

Central Eclipse begins

Greatest Eclipse #

Central Eclipse ends

Eclipse ends

1d   8h  04.1m

1d   9h  22.6m

1d  10h  21.1m

1d  11h  20.0m

1d 12h  38.4m

1d  13h  34.1m

1d  14h  52.6m

1d  15h  51.1m

1d  16h  50.0m

1d  18h  08.4m

50º  12'.4

68º  16'.7

65º  39'.0

33º  29'.1

11º  09'.9

- 52º  14'.4

- 103º  07'.3

72º  17'.2

113º  53'.1

85º  36'.2

# Magnitude of the eclipse = 1.040; Duration of total phase = 2m 30s.

 

  LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARTIAL PHASE RELATING TO CERTAIN PLACES IN INDIA

Place

Eclipse Begins (I.S.T.)

Greatest Phase (I.S.T.)

Magnitude

Eclipse Ends (I.S.T.)

Sunset (I.S.T.)

 Agartala

16h  15.4m

17h  10.2m

0.690

18h  00.9m

18h  08m

Ahmedabad

16h  16.4m

17h  10.8m

0.459

18h  00.8m

19h  21m

Aizawl

16h  15.5m

17h  10.1m

0.702

18h  00.5m

18h  02m

Ajmer

16h  07.9m

17h  05.6m

0.551

17h  58.5m

19h  19m

Allahabad

16h  11.4m

17h  08.3m

0.623

18h  00.6m

18h  48m

Amritsar

15h  55.5m

16h  56.7m

0.645

17h  52.6m

19h  27m

Bangalore

16h  42.4m

17h  26.1m

0.312

18h  07.0m

18h  46m

Bhagalpur

16h  12.4m

17h  08.6m

0.675

18h  00.4m

18h  27m

Bhopal

16h  16.0m

17h  11.4m

0.527

18h  02.2m

19h  02m

Bhubaneswar

16h  22.9m

17h  15.9m

0.565

18h  04.9m

18h  24m

Cannanore

16h  46.7m

17h  27.5m

0.258

18h  05.8m

18h  54m

Chandigarh

15h  58.3m

16h  58.8m

0.656

17h  54.1m

19h  17m

Chennai

16h  40.9m

17h  25.9m

0.346

18h  07.7m

18h  36m

Cochin

16h  52.0m

17h  29.9m

0.225

18h  05.6m

18h  48m

Cooch Behar

16h  10.4m

17h  06.9m

0.718

17h  58.9m

18h  19m

Cuttack

16h  22.4m

17h  15.6m

0.570

18h  04.7m

18h  24m

 Darjeeling

16h  08.9m

17h  05.9m

0.721

17h  58.3m

18h  25m

Dehra Dun

15h  59.7m

16h  59.8m

0.663

17h  54.9m

19h  12m

Delhi

16h  03.3m

17h  02.5m

0.624

17h  56.7m

19h  12m

Dibrugarh

16h  08.5m

17h  04.4m

0.791

17h  56.0m

17h  59m

Dwarka

16h  18.2m

17h  10.9m

0.396

17h  59.4m

19h  34m

Gandhinagar

16h  15.8m

17h  10.5m

0.465

18h  00.7m

19h  21m

Gangtok

16h  08.4m

17h 05.4m

0.729

17h  58.0m

18h  24m

Gaya

16h  13.2m

17h  09.4m

0.645

18h  01.1m

18h  34m

Guwahati

16h  10.9m

17h  06.8m

0.738

17h  58.4m

18h  09m

Hardwar

16h  00.6m

17h  00.5m

0.657

17h  55.3m

19h  11m

Hazaribagh

16h  14.9m

17h  10.6m

0.633

18h  01.8m

18h  32m

Hubli

16h  36.8m

17h  22.9m

0.334

18h  05.8m

18h  59m

Hyderabad

16h  30.3m

17h  20.1m

0.421

18h  06.2m

18h  49m

Imphal

16h  13.5m

17h  08.4m

0.733

-

17h  58m

Itanagar

16h  09.1m

17h  05.1m

0.773

17h  56.8m

18h  03m

 Jaipur

16h  07.0m

17h  05.1m

0.575

17h  58.3m

19h  15m

Jalandhar

15h  56.4m

16h  57.4m

0.645

17h  53.1m

19h  25m

Jammu

15h  53.0m

16h  54.7m

0.663

17h  51.2m

19h  29m

Kanyakumari

16h  57.0m

17h  32.0m

0.194

18h  05.2m

18h  40m

Kavalur

16h  42.9m

17h 26.6m

0.318

18h  07.4m

18h  41m

Kavaratti

16h  53.0m

17h  29.1m

0.190

18h  03.2m

19h  03m

Kohima

16h  11.9m

17h  07.1m

0.751

17h  58.2m

18h  00m

Kolhapur

16h  33.3m

17h  20.9m

0.351

18h  05.0m

19h  05m

Kolkata

16h  18.0m

17h  12.5m

0.637

18h  02.7m

18h  17m

Koraput

16h  26.3m

17h  18.1m

0.501

18h  06.0m

18h  34m

Kozhikode

16h  48.3m

17h  28.3m

0.249

18h  05.8m

18h  51m

Kurnool

16h  34.5m

17h  22.3m

0.382

18h  06.7m

18h  48m

Lucknow

16h  08.2m

17h  06.1m

0.637

17h  59.1m

18h  54m

Madurai

16h  50.6m

17h  29.8m

0.248

18h  06.6m

18h  40m

Mangalore