Partial Solar Eclipse of 2012 May 21

Interactive Eclipse Path Using Google Maps

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Introduction

This map shows the path of the solar eclipse across Earth's surface. The northern and southern path limits are blue and the central line is red. The four-way toggle arrows (upper left corner) are for navigating around the map. The zoom bar (left edge) is used to change the magnification. The two buttons (top right) turn on either a map view, a terrain view, a satellite view or a hybrid map/satellite view.

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See Eclipse Data, including the Besselian elements, for the 2012 May 21 solar eclipse.

Click anywhere on the map to calculate eclipse times there. For more information, see Instructions.

Acknowledgments

This Google Maps implementation (path computations, local circumstances and cursor position) is based on Xavier Jubier's Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses Web Tool.

Special thanks to National Space Club summer intern Sumit Dutta for his assistance in preparing the solar eclipse mapper (July 2007).

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For information on reproducting eclipse data, see NASA Copyright Information.

Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment:

"Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC)"