Tro-Jan War Solar Science

Tro-Jan War Solar Science

 

 

 

Annular Solar Eclipse Around the Time of the Battle at Ilion 1208 BCE

https://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/-1299--1200/SE-1207May16Aprime.html 

 

Annular Solar Eclipse of -1207 May 16 (1208 May 16 BCE)

 

Annular Solar Eclipse Around the Time of the Battle at Ilion 1208 BCE 

 

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The Annular Solar Eclipse of -1207 May 16 (1208 May 16 BCE) is visible from the geographic regions shown on the map to the right. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.

The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on -1207 May 16 at 18:02:25 TD (09:56:49 UT1). This is 4.8 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Taurus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -38708.

The eclipse belongs to Saros 28 and is number 40 of 72 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.

The annular solar eclipse of -1207 May 16 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on -1207 Jun 01.

These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.

The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT). ΔT has a value of 29135.1 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1080.3 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 4.51°.

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Total Solar Eclipse Around the Time of the Battle at Gibeon (Gabbou near Illion) 1208 BCE 

Total Solar Eclipse of -1203 Aug 28 (1204 Aug 28 BCE)

Total Solar Eclipse Around the Time of the Battle at Gibeon (Gabbou near Illion) 1208 BCE  

 

 

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The Total Solar Eclipse of -1203 Aug 28 (1204 Aug 28 BCE) is visible from the geographic regions shown on the map to the right. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.

The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on -1203 Aug 28 at 16:54:03 TD (08:49:51 UT1). This is 2.2 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Virgo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of -38655.

The eclipse belongs to Saros 35 and is number 38 of 84 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.

The total solar eclipse of -1203 Aug 28 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1203 Aug 14, and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on -1203 Sep 13.

These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.

The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT). ΔT has a value of 29052.6 seconds for this eclipse. The uncertainty in ΔT is 1069.8 seconds corresponding to a standard error in longitude of the eclipse path of ± 4.47°.

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Annular Solar Eclipse Around the Time beginning of the Trojan War in about 1220 BCE 

 

Annular Solar Eclipse Around the Time beginning of the Trojan War in about 1220 BCE