Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087
Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.1139 |
Magnitude | 0.8011 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 70°18′N 127°36′E / 70.3°N 127.6°E |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 18:04:42 |
References | |
Saros | 120 (65 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9704 |
A partial solar eclipse will occur on Friday 2 May 2087. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2087–2090
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 eclipse on June 1, 2087 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2087 to 2090 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120 | May 2, 2087![]() Partial |
1.1139 | 125 | October 26, 2087![]() Partial |
−1.2882 | |
130 | April 21, 2088![]() Total |
0.4135 | 135 | October 14, 2088![]() Annular |
−0.5349 | |
140 | April 10, 2089![]() Annular |
−0.3319 | 145 | October 4, 2089![]() Total |
0.2167 | |
150 | March 31, 2090![]() Partial |
−1.1028 | 155 | September 23, 2090![]() Total |
0.9157 |
Saros 120
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD. It contains annular eclipses from August 11, 1059 through April 26, 1492; hybrid eclipses from May 8, 1510 through June 8, 1564; and total eclipses from June 20, 1582 through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 24 seconds on September 11, 1113, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 60 at 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 50–71 occur between 1801 and 2195: | ||
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50 | 51 | 52 |
![]() November 19, 1816 |
![]() November 30, 1834 |
![]() December 11, 1852 |
53 | 54 | 55 |
![]() December 22, 1870 |
![]() January 1, 1889 |
![]() January 14, 1907 |
56 | 57 | 58 |
![]() January 24, 1925 |
![]() February 4, 1943 |
![]() February 15, 1961 |
59 | 60 | 61 |
![]() February 26, 1979 |
![]() March 9, 1997 |
![]() March 20, 2015 |
62 | 63 | 64 |
![]() March 30, 2033 |
![]() April 11, 2051 |
![]() April 21, 2069 |
65 | 66 | 67 |
![]() May 2, 2087 |
![]() May 14, 2105 |
![]() May 25, 2123 |
68 | 69 | 70 |
![]() June 4, 2141 |
![]() June 16, 2159 |
![]() June 26, 2177 |
71 | ||
![]() July 7, 2195 |
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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 120". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.