Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045
Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.3125 |
Magnitude | 0.9285 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 467 s (7 min 47 s) |
Coordinates | 28°18′S 166°12′W / 28.3°S 166.2°W |
Max. width of band | 281 km (175 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 23:56:07 |
References | |
Saros | 131 (52 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9607 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Thursday, February 16, 2045. 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 of 2044–2047
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 June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2044 to 2047 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
121 | February 28, 2044![]() Annular |
−0.9954 | 126 | August 23, 2044![]() Total |
0.9613 | |
131 | February 16, 2045![]() Annular |
−0.3125 | 136 | August 12, 2045![]() Total |
0.2116 | |
141 | February 5, 2046![]() Annular |
0.3765 | 146 | August 2, 2046![]() Total |
−0.535 | |
151 | January 26, 2047![]() Partial |
1.045 | 156 | July 22, 2047![]() Partial |
−1.3477 |
Saros 131
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612; hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702; and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. 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 totality was produced by member 28 at 58 seconds on May 30, 1612, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 50 at 7 minutes, 54 seconds on January 26, 2009. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 39–60 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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39 | 40 | 41 |
![]() September 28, 1810 |
![]() October 9, 1828 |
![]() October 20, 1846 |
42 | 43 | 44 |
![]() October 30, 1864 |
![]() November 10, 1882 |
![]() November 22, 1900 |
45 | 46 | 47 |
![]() December 3, 1918 |
![]() December 13, 1936 |
![]() December 25, 1954 |
48 | 49 | 50 |
![]() January 4, 1973 |
![]() January 15, 1991 |
![]() January 26, 2009 |
51 | 52 | 53 |
![]() February 6, 2027 |
![]() February 16, 2045 |
![]() February 28, 2063 |
54 | 55 | 56 |
![]() March 10, 2081 |
![]() March 21, 2099 |
![]() April 2, 2117 |
57 | 58 | 59 |
![]() April 13, 2135 |
![]() April 23, 2153 |
![]() May 5, 2171 |
60 | ||
![]() May 15, 2189 |
Tritos series
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1901 and 2100 | |||
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![]() March 29, 1903 (Saros 118) |
![]() February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) |
![]() January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) | |
![]() December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) |
![]() November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) |
![]() October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) | |
![]() September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) |
![]() August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) |
![]() July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) | |
![]() June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) |
![]() May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) |
![]() April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) | |
![]() March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) |
![]() February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) |
![]() January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) | |
![]() December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) |
![]() November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
![]() October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) | |
![]() September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) |
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 ascending node.
21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 13, 2018 and July 12, 2094 | ||||
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July 12–13 | April 30-May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
![]() July 13, 2018 |
![]() April 30, 2022 |
![]() February 17, 2026 |
![]() December 5, 2029 |
![]() September 23, 2033 |
127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
![]() July 13, 2037 |
![]() April 30, 2041 |
![]() February 16, 2045 |
![]() December 5, 2048 |
![]() September 22, 2052 |
137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
![]() July 12, 2056 |
![]() April 30, 2060 |
![]() February 17, 2064 |
![]() December 6, 2067 |
![]() September 23, 2071 |
147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
![]() July 13, 2075 |
![]() May 1, 2079 |
![]() February 16, 2083 |
![]() December 6, 2086 |
![]() September 23, 2090 |
157 | ||||
![]() July 12, 2094 |
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 131". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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