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Total eclipse of June 21, 2001

Presentation of the eclipse


 

  • Description of the eclipse
  • General map
  • Local maps : 
    •             Madagascar
                Angola
                Zambia

    Description of the eclipse

     

    This eclipse is the first total eclipse of the twenty-first century. It bears the number 7636 in the canon of Oppolzer and belongs the Saros series number 127 of the canon of eclipses of Mucke and Meeus. Its central path begins on the South Atlantic ocean at the southwest of Brazil and across Africa from west to east, passing on Angola, Zambia, northern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar, and then ending in the Indian Ocean west of Madagascar.

    General map

     

    Local maps