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Blue poster lunar calendar 2009

Solar and lunar eclipses in 2009

For the record, we're expecting two solar and four lunar eclipses in 2009; they're shown on the calendars, but you'll need to research elsewhere to find exact details of if and when they may be visible at your location. (My planetarium program does do a reasonable job of it, though, especially if you can get it to run using the 'Swiss Ephemeris' data files.) Here's the list of dates:

The total solar eclipse in July is the longest-duration one this century, but you'll need to be somewhere around a line from India through China to the South Pacific to see it. For more information may I suggest some great websites out there which are already giving excellent information; here are three generally reliable ones:

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