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Eclipses

Total solar eclipse

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Path of totality

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Cities along the path

Cities along the path

Time of maximum in UTC, to the minute: when the centre of the shadow passes nearest.

  1. 05:58UTCHuamboAngola
  2. 06:27UTCXai-XaiMozambique

The eclipse at a glance

Greatest eclipse
07:31:10 UTC39.5° S, 59.6° E
Obscuration
100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
Saros family
Nov 22, 1984, one saros beforeDec 14, 2020, one saros afterEclipses about 18 years and 11 days apart, with the same orbital geometry and shifted about 120° west each cycle.
The central path crosses 8 countries and territories
  • Angola
  • Zambia
  • Namibia
  • Botswana
  • Zimbabwe
  • South Africa
  • Mozambique
  • Australia