Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001

The annular eclipse of 14 December 2001 was almost exclusively held over the Pacific. Only at the end of darkness crossed the zone with annular visibility Central America.

Course

The annular phase began in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line, so that according to local time, strictly speaking, on December 15. The zone of the annular eclipse sat first in a south-easterly direction away, the maximum took place at 20:51:75 UT in the Pacific. Shortly thereafter, the darkness corridor for a short time crossed the equator, after a short period easterly spread was the spread but then more and more in a northeasterly direction, so that the dark corridor shortly thereafter moved to the northern hemisphere again.

Shortly before the end of the eclipse zone crossed with annular visibility Costa Rica and Nicaragua, where the eclipse could be observed after local time in the evening hours of December 14. The eclipse ended shortly thereafter in the Caribbean.

Partially the darkness could be seen next to a large part of the Pacific Ocean from North and Central America and the northwestern South America.