THE ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2009 JANUARY 26

The Annular Solar Eclipse of 2009 January 26 begins at sunrise in the south Atlantic Ocean and moves rapidly eastward way south of the African mainland.  It then heads north-eastward through the Indian Ocean, presenting most of southern Africa with a partial eclipse.  The path of annularity moves over Indonesia and the antumbral shadow leaves earth to the east of Indonesia at local sunset.  The next time the moon's shadow touches earth will be on 2009 July 22 for over 6m 30 sec of totality.
 

Path of Annularity on 2009 January 26, south of Africa.

Locations more or less south of Durban and Maseru will see 50% or more of the sun’s diameter eclipsed, and places further north will see less than  that. Harare will see only 20% of the sun’s diameter eclipsed.

Detailed Predictions (Eclipse timings) for countries in Africa.

Click on a link to download a text file containing an alphabetical listing of locations in each country and the start / maximum eclipse / end times of the eclipse

Africa General     (18 KB)
Angola               (2 MB)
Botswana           (89 KB)
Lesotho             (73 KB)
Madagascar       (813 KB)
Malawi               (813 KB)
Mozambique       (4 MB)
Namibia             (383 KB)
South Africa       (2.3 MB)
Swaziland           (20 KB)
Tanzania           (178 KB)
Zambia             (4.3 MB)
Zimbabwe         (664 KB)

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