Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006

On 22 September 2006 an annular solar eclipse took place. In its annular shape the solar eclipse in the initial section on Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil could be seen from the mainland, and then only over the South Atlantic. With Paramaribo ( Suriname ) and Cayenne (French Guiana) were larger cities Ringförmigkeitszone, whose central line the ring eclipse of 85% at a very low Sun 5 min 38 s lasted. Also the Kourou Spaceport ESA was in the shaded area. Partial solar eclipse was in virtually all of South America to see in the south and south-west Africa and parts of Antarctica, also on semi Madagascar as well as holiday islands of Mauritius and La Réunion.

Relatively close to the autumn equinox batting - Autumn Equinox was on 23 September 2006, at 06:03 CEST clock - and as a result of the collapse of the descending node with the fall point, the Ringförmigkeitszone was strongly bent recently Equator parallel course to the south. This resulted from the addition of the lunar orbit inclination ( about 5 ° ) and the ecliptic angle ( 23.5 ° ) (see also ecliptic ).

The eclipse of 22 September 2006 was the 16th of a comprehensive 70 eclipses of Saros series. It took place in the descending node of the lunar orbit.

The following eclipses were on March 19 and September 11, 2007, both of which were partial eclipses. In 2008, it came back to the central solar eclipses: on February 7, 2008 ( annular), and on 1 August 2008 ( total).