Partial solar eclipse of 2018, February 15 The eclipse is visible from southern Africa, Atlantic coast of Antarctica, south of Atlantic ocean. Universal time of geocentric conjunction h m s in right ascension 2018, February 15, 20 15 08.0 Geocentric coordinates of the Sun h m s s h Right ascension . . . . . . . . 21 57 10.43+ 9.723( T-20 ) ° ' " " h Declination . . . . . . . . . . -12 28 51.7 +51.81 ( T-20 ) " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . 8.90 ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . 16 11.40 Geocentric coordinates of the Moon h m s s h s h 2 Right ascension . . . . . . . . 21 56 42.00+122.415(T-20 )-0.032(T-20 ) ° ' " " h " h Declination . . . . . . . . . . -13 39 15.2 +471.40 (T-20 )+2.02 (T-20 ) ' " " h " h Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . 55 00.04+ 0.966(T-20 )+0.003(T-20 ) ' " " h " h Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . 14 59.25+ 0.262(T-20 )+0.001(T-20 ) s T - universal time in hours ( TDT - UT1 = 69.0 ) General Circumstances of the Eclipse ──────────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────┬───────────────── Phenomena | Universal | Latitude | Longitude | Time | | ──────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────── │ h m │ ° ' │ ° ' Eclipse begins . . . │ 18 55.8 │ -62 15.0 │ 144 00.7 E Greatest eclipse 0.600│ 20 51.4 │ -70 54.0 │ 1 27.2 E Eclipse ends . . . │ 22 47.2 │ -35 14.7 │ 58 58.7 W Besselian Elements ────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────── Universal│ x │ y │ sin d │ cos d │ u │ u │ m Time │ │ │ │ │ e │ i │ ────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────── h m │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ° ' 18 50 |-0.70814 |-1.43254 |-0.21634 |+0.97632 |+0.56843 |+0.02193 | 98 58.6 | | | | | | | 19 00 |-0.62496 |-1.41125 |-0.21630 |+0.97633 |+0.56842 |+0.02192 | 101 28.6 10 |-0.54178 |-1.38994 |-0.21626 |+0.97634 |+0.56841 |+0.02191 | 103 58.6 20 |-0.45860 |-1.36863 |-0.21622 |+0.97634 |+0.56840 |+0.02190 | 106 28.6 30 |-0.37542 |-1.34731 |-0.21618 |+0.97635 |+0.56839 |+0.02189 | 108 58.6 40 |-0.29224 |-1.32598 |-0.21614 |+0.97636 |+0.56838 |+0.02188 | 111 28.7 50 |-0.20906 |-1.30464 |-0.21610 |+0.97637 |+0.56837 |+0.02187 | 113 58.7 | | | | | | | 20 00 |-0.12588 |-1.28330 |-0.21606 |+0.97638 |+0.56836 |+0.02186 | 116 28.7 10 |-0.04270 |-1.26195 |-0.21602 |+0.97639 |+0.56835 |+0.02185 | 118 58.7 20 |+0.04048 |-1.24059 |-0.21598 |+0.97640 |+0.56833 |+0.02184 | 121 28.7 30 |+0.12365 |-1.21923 |-0.21594 |+0.97641 |+0.56832 |+0.02182 | 123 58.7 40 |+0.20683 |-1.19785 |-0.21590 |+0.97641 |+0.56830 |+0.02181 | 126 28.8 50 |+0.29001 |-1.17647 |-0.21586 |+0.97642 |+0.56829 |+0.02179 | 128 58.8 | | | | | | | 21 00 |+0.37318 |-1.15509 |-0.21582 |+0.97643 |+0.56827 |+0.02178 | 131 28.8 10 |+0.45636 |-1.13369 |-0.21578 |+0.97644 |+0.56826 |+0.02176 | 133 58.8 20 |+0.53953 |-1.11229 |-0.21574 |+0.97645 |+0.56824 |+0.02175 | 136 28.8 30 |+0.62270 |-1.09089 |-0.21570 |+0.97646 |+0.56823 |+0.02173 | 138 58.9 40 |+0.70587 |-1.06947 |-0.21566 |+0.97647 |+0.56821 |+0.02171 | 141 28.9 50 |+0.78904 |-1.04805 |-0.21562 |+0.97648 |+0.56819 |+0.02170 | 143 58.9 | | | | | | | 22 00 |+0.87221 |-1.02662 |-0.21558 |+0.97649 |+0.56817 |+0.02168 | 146 28.9 10 |+0.95537 |-1.00519 |-0.21554 |+0.97649 |+0.56815 |+0.02166 | 148 58.9 20 |+1.03853 |-0.98375 |-0.21550 |+0.97650 |+0.56813 |+0.02164 | 151 28.9 30 |+1.12169 |-0.96230 |-0.21546 |+0.97651 |+0.56811 |+0.02162 | 153 59.0 40 |+1.20485 |-0.94084 |-0.21542 |+0.97652 |+0.56809 |+0.02160 | 156 29.0 50 |+1.28800 |-0.91938 |-0.21538 |+0.97653 |+0.56807 |+0.02158 | 158 59.0 ────────┬───────────┬───────────╥────────┬───────────┬────────── Univers.│ x' │ y' ║Univers.│ x' │ y' tgf =0.0047341 Time │ │ ║ Time │ │ e ────────┼───────────┼───────────╫────────┼───────────┼──────────tgf =0.0047105 h │ │ ║ h │ │ i 18 │ +0.008317 | +0.002126 ║ 21 | +0.008318 | +0.002139 m'=0.0043639 19 │ +0.008318 | +0.002130 ║ 22 | +0.008317 | +0.002143 20 │ +0.008318 | +0.002135 ║ 23 | +0.008315 | +0.002147