Errata for Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01

Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson
NASA/TP-2007-214149

This page lists all known errors and misprints in the NASA Technical Publication "Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01" (NASA/TP-2007-214149). The errata cover both the hard copy and pdf forms of the publication.

Errata

• Correction to Besselian element "Mu[0]" to include nutation.
• Mu[0] = 328.425751° (from Table 1)

The following tables are updated versions of the ones published in NASA/TP-2007-214149. They include a small correction to "Mu[0]" and use an updated value for ΔT of 65.6 seconds.
• Table 1 - Elements of the Eclipse
• Table 2 - Shadow Contacts and Circumstances
• Table 3 - Path of the Umbral Shadow
• Table 4 - Physical Ephemeris of the Umbral Shadow
• Table 5 - Local Circumstances on the Central Line
• Table 6 - Topocentric Data and Path Corrections Due to Lunar Limb Profile
• Table 7 - Mapping Coordinates for the Umbral Path
• Table 8 - Mapping Coordinates for the Zones of Grazing Eclipse

Please send any other comments, corrections and/or errata to Fred Espenak

Permission is freely granted to reproduce any portion of this NASA publication. All uses and/or publication of this material should be accompanied by an appropriate acknowledgment of the source (e.g.- Eclipse maps and data courtesy of Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson, NASA TP-NASA/TP-2007-214149 "Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01").

Comments, suggestions and corrections are solicited to improve the content and layout in subsequent editions of this publication series.

    Fred Espenak                              Jay Anderson
    NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center        Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
    Planteary Systems Laboratory, Code 693    189 Kingsway Ave.     
    Greenbelt, MD 20771                       Winnipeg, MB,           
    USA                                       CANADA  R3M 0G4     
    Email: fred.espenak@nasa.gov              Email: jander@cc.umanitoba.ca

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