Annular Solar Eclipse 2006

September 22-23 2006 heralds a powerful impulse pre-empting the Dawning of the Fifth Day of the Galactic Underworld on November 23/24 2006 with the combination of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2006 on September 22 and the Autmun Equinox on September 23. The Disturbing Calm of the Fourth Night of the Galactic Underworld prepares to unleash turbulent and tumultuous alchemic forces of regenesis through the Fifth Day that shall require steadfast discipline and determination to pass. I call on all Reiki Healers and Masters of the Tora Or Project to dutifully perform elongated TOP Emissions during the whole period of the Annular Solar Eclipse and the Autmun Equinox. i. Download the TOP File ii. Perform TOP Emissions iii. Encourage all your Reiki Students and Associates to Join the Tora Or Project and co-participate in regularly Performing TOP Emissions Peace Ross NASA Report of the Annular Solar Eclipse of September 22 2006 On Friday, 2006 September 22, an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's antumbral shadow begins in northern South America and crosses the South Atlantic with no further landfall. A partial eclipse will be seen from a much larger region including South America, the eastern Caribbean, western Africa, and Antarctica. Click here for more details The path of the annular eclipse begins in Guyana at 09:48 UT when the Moon's antumbral shadow meets Earth and forms a 323 kilometre wide corridor. Click here for more details Guyana's capitol city Georgetown lies just a few kilometres outside the path's northern limit. Here, a magnitude 0.920 partial eclipse will be seen at sunrise. On the central line 160 kilometres south, the duration of annularity is 5 minutes 31 seconds. Click here for more details Rushing east, the antumbra quickly enters Surinam where its capital city Paramaribo lies deep within the antumbral path. Maximum eclipse in Paramaribo occurs at 09:51 UT, the Sun's altitude is 5° and the duration of annularity is 5 minutes 1 seconds. Continuing into French Guiana, the capitol city Cayenne stands just 10 kilometres south of the central line. Maximum eclipse occurs at 09:53 UT as the Sun stands 8° above the eastern horizon during an annular phase lasting 5 minutes 42 seconds. The southern edge of the antumbra briefly clips the north coast of Brazil before spending the next three and a half hours sweeping across the South Atlantic. Greatest eclipse occurs at 11:40:11 UT. The annular duration is 7 minutes 9 seconds, the path width is 261 kilometres and the Sun is 66° above the featureless horizon of the open ocean. The central track runs south of the African continent and nearly reaches Kerguelen Island before ending at local sunset (13:31 UT). During its 3 hour 40 minute flight across our planet, the Moon's antumbra travels about 13,800 kilometres and covers 0.83% of Earth's surface area. Click here for path coordinates and central line circumstances Partial phases of the eclipse are visible primarily from South America and Africa. Click here for local circumstances for a number of cities All times are given in Universal Time. The Sun's altitude and azimuth, the eclipse magnitude and obscuration are all given at the instant of maximum eclipse. This is the 16th eclipse of Saros 144. The series began with the first of eight partial eclipses on 1736 Apr 11. The periodicity and recurrence of eclipses is governed by the saros cycle, a period of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours). It was known to the Chaldeans as a period when lunar eclipses seem to repeat themselves, but the cycle is applicable to solar eclipses as well. The saros arises from a natural harmony between three of the Moon's orbital periods: Synodic Month (new moon to new moon) 29.53059 days = 29d 12h 44m Draconic Month (node to node) 27.21222 days = 27d 05h 06m Anomalistic Month (perigee to perigee) 27.55455 days = 27d 13h 19m One saros is equal to 223 synodic months. However, 242 draconic months and 239 anomalistic months are also equal to this same period (to within a couple hours)! Any two eclipses separated by one saros cycle share very similar geometries. They occur at the same node with the Moon at nearly the same distance from Earth and at the same time of year.