Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049
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| Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | −0.1187 |
| Magnitude | 0.9631 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 285 s (4 min 45 s) |
| Coordinates | 15°18′N 29°54′W / 15.3°N 29.9°W |
| Max. width of band | 134 km (83 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 13:59:59 |
| References | |
| Saros | 138 (33 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9617 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on May 31, 2049. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2047–2050
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[1]
The partial solar eclipses on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 2047 to 2050 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 118 | June 23, 2047 Partial |
1.3766 | 123 | December 16, 2047 Partial |
−1.0661 | |
| 128 | June 11, 2048 Annular |
0.6468 | 133 | December 5, 2048 Total |
−0.3973 | |
| 138 | May 31, 2049 Annular |
−0.1187 | 143 | November 25, 2049 Hybrid |
0.2943 | |
| 148 | May 20, 2050 Hybrid |
−0.8688 | 153 | November 14, 2050 Partial |
1.0447 | |
Saros 138
It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.
| Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 26 | 27 |
 March 6, 1905 |
 March 17, 1923 |
 March 27, 1941 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
 April 8, 1959 |
 April 18, 1977 |
 April 29, 1995 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 |
 May 10, 2013 |
 May 21, 2031 |
May 31, 2049 |
| 34 | 35 | |
 June 11, 2067 |
 June 22, 2085 | |
Inex series
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||
|---|---|---|
 November 9, 1817 (Saros 130) |
 October 20, 1846 (Saros 131) |
 September 29, 1875 (Saros 132) |
 September 9, 1904 (Saros 133) |
 August 21, 1933 (Saros 134) |
 July 31, 1962 (Saros 135) |
 July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) |
 June 21, 2020 (Saros 137) |
May 31, 2049 (Saros 138) |
 May 11, 2078 (Saros 139) |
 April 23, 2107 (Saros 140) |
 April 1, 2136 (Saros 141) |
 March 12, 2165 (Saros 142) |
 February 21, 2194 (Saros 143) |
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Metonic series
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
| 22 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and October 24, 2098 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31–June 1 | March 19–20 | January 5–6 | October 24–25 | August 12–13 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
 June 1, 2011 |
 March 20, 2015 |
 January 6, 2019 |
 October 25, 2022 |
 August 12, 2026 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
 June 1, 2030 |
 March 20, 2034 |
 January 5, 2038 |
 October 25, 2041 |
 August 12, 2045 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
May 31, 2049 |
 March 20, 2053 |
 January 5, 2057 |
 October 24, 2060 |
 August 12, 2064 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
 May 31, 2068 |
 March 19, 2072 |
 January 6, 2076 |
 October 24, 2079 |
 August 13, 2083 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | |
 June 1, 2087 |
 October 24, 2098 | |||
References
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
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