Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033
Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.9778 |
Magnitude | 1.0462 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 157 s (2 min 37 s) |
Coordinates | 71°18′N 155°48′W / 71.3°N 155.8°W |
Max. width of band | 781 km (485 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 18:02:36 |
References | |
Saros | 120 (62 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9581 |
A total solar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, March 30, 2033. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.
Totality will be visible in Nome, Alaska, Utqiagvik, Alaska and Chukchi Peninsula in the mid-morning hours. This is the last of 55 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 120. The 1st was in 1059. The total duration is 974 years.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 2033–2036
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 July 23, 2036 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2033 to 2036 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120 | March 30, 2033![]() Total |
0.9778 | 125 | September 23, 2033![]() Partial |
−1.1583 | |
130 | March 20, 2034![]() Total |
0.2894 | 135 | September 12, 2034![]() Annular |
−0.3936 | |
140 | March 9, 2035![]() Annular |
−0.4368 | 145 | September 2, 2035![]() Total |
0.3727 | |
150 | February 27, 2036![]() Partial |
−1.1942 | 155 | August 21, 2036![]() Partial |
1.0825 |
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 |
Metonic cycle
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).
21 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105 | ||||
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June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
![]() June 12, 2029 |
![]() March 30, 2033 |
![]() January 16, 2037 |
![]() November 4, 2040 |
![]() August 23, 2044 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
![]() June 11, 2048 |
![]() March 30, 2052 |
![]() January 16, 2056 |
![]() November 5, 2059 |
![]() August 24, 2063 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
![]() June 11, 2067 |
![]() March 31, 2071 |
![]() January 16, 2075 |
![]() November 4, 2078 |
![]() August 24, 2082 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | |
![]() June 11, 2086 |
![]() March 31, 2090 |
![]() January 16, 2094 |
![]() November 4, 2097 |
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.
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