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Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081

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Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma−0.3653
Magnitude0.9304
Maximum eclipse
Duration456 s (7 min 36 s)
Coordinates22°24′S 36°42′W / 22.4°S 36.7°W / -22.4; -36.7
Max. width of band277 km (172 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse15:23:31
References
Saros131 (54 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9689

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Monday, March 10, 2081. 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.

Solar eclipses 2080–2083

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 15, 2083 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2080 to 2083
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
121 March 21, 2080

Partial
−1.0578 126 September 13, 2080

Partial
1.0723
131 March 10, 2081

Annular
−0.3653 136 September 3, 2081

Total
0.3378
141 February 27, 2082

Annular
0.3361 146 August 24, 2082

Total
−0.4004
151 February 16, 2083

Partial
1.017 156 August 13, 2083

Partial
−1.2064

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.

References

  1. ^ 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.