Solar eclipse of October 3, 2005

The path of the eclipse began in the North Atlantic ocean at 08:41 universal time (UT). The antumbra reached Madrid, Spain at 08:56 UT, lasting four minutes and eleven seconds and 90% of the Sun was covered by the Moon. The antumbra reached Algiers at 09:05 UT, then passed through Tunisia and Libya before heading southeast through Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. The shadow then moved out over the Indian Ocean until it terminated at sunset, 12:22 UT.{{cite web

| first=Fred | last=Espenak

| title=Annular Solar Eclipse of 2005 October 03

| publisher=NASA/GSFC | access-date=2009-09-23

| url=http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/ASE2005/ASE2005.html }}

The maximum eclipse duration occurred in central Sudan at 10:31:42 UT, where it lasted for 4m 31s when the Sun was 71° above the horizon.

The motion of the shadow was supersonic and it generated gravity waves that were detectable as disturbances in the ionosphere. These gravity waves originate in the thermosphere at an altitude of about 180 km. Because of the obscuration of solar radiation, the ionization level dropped by 70% during the eclipse.{{cite journal

| first=N. | last=Jakowski | title=Ionospheric behavior over Europe during the solar eclipse of 3 October 2005 | journal=Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics | volume=70 | issue=6 |date=April 2008 | pages=836–853

| doi=10.1016/j.jastp.2007.02.016 |bibcode = 2008JASTP..70..836J |display-authors=etal}}{{cite journal

| first=P. | last=Šauli | title=Acoustic–gravity waves during solar eclipses: Detection and characterization using wavelet transforms

| journal=Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics | volume=69| issue=17–18 |date=December 2007 | pages=2465–2484

| doi=10.1016/j.jastp.2007.06.012 |bibcode = 2007JASTP..69.2465S | s2cid=54722046 |display-authors=etal| url=https://hal-ens-lyon.archives-ouvertes.fr/ensl-00193184/file/Sauli_etal.pdf }} The eclipse caused a 1–1.4 K drop in the temperature of the ionosphere.{{cite journal

| title=Tropospheric-ionospheric effects of the 3 October 2005 partial solar eclipse in Kharkiv

| last=Burmaka | first=V. P. | journal=Kosmichna Nauka I Tekhnologiya

| volume=13 | issue=6 | pages=74–86 | date=2007

| bibcode=2007KosNT..13f..74B |display-authors=etal| doi=10.15407/knit2007.06.074 }}

Animated path

File:Eclipse EastAfrica AMO 20051003.jpg|Satellite image showing the Moon's shadow over East Africa

Image:Eclipse anular.gif|Animation from Medina del Campo, Spain

Image:Solar Eclipse Oct05.jpg|Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal (9:00 UTC)

Image:IMG 1650 zonsverduistering Malta.JPG|Eclipse projection through leaves in St. Julian's, Malta

Image:EclipseSoudeur.jpg|Saintes, France (9:36 UTC)

Image:Partial Eclipse Chennai Oct2005.jpg|Chennai, India (11:33 UTC)

Image:20051003sequence.jpg|Eclipse sequence from Degania A, Israel

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.{{cite web|title=Annular Solar Eclipse of 2005 Oct 03|url=https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/2001-2100/SE2005Oct03Aprime.html|publisher=EclipseWise.com|access-date=11 August 2024}}

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{{See also|Eclipse cycle}}

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

• A hybrid solar eclipse on April 8.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on April 24.
• An annular solar eclipse on October 3.
• A partial lunar eclipse on October 17.

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 27, 1996
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 8, 2014

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2034

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 3, 2092

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{{Solar Metonic series 1971–2047}}

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{{Solar eclipse NASA reference|2001/SE2005Oct03A|20050103}}

Photos:

• [http://slide.tech.sina.com.cn/d/slide_5_453_340.html Photos of solar eclipse around the world]
• [http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_03oct05.htm Spaceweather.com solar eclipse gallery]
• [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051005.html Annular Solar Eclipse at High Resolution] APOD 10/5/2005, annularity from Spain
• [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051007.html Annular Eclipse Madrid] APOD 10/7/2005, annularity from Buen Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain
• [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051014.html Annular Eclipse Shirt] APOD 10/14/2005, from Madrid, Spain

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