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Solar eclipse of November 5, 2059
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4454
Magnitude0.9417
Maximum eclipse
Duration420 s (7 min 0 s)
Coordinates8°42′N 47°06′E / 8.7°N 47.1°E / 8.7; 47.1
Max. width of band238 km (148 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse9:18:15
References
Saros134 (46 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9641

An annular solar eclipse will occur on November 5, 2059. 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. The Sun will be 94% covered in a moderate annular eclipse, lasting 7 minutes exactly and covering a broad path up to 238 km wide.

Solar eclipses 2059–2061

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 21, 2058 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2058 to 2061
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
119 May 22, 2058

Partial
−1.3194 124 November 16, 2058

Partial
1.1224
129 May 11, 2059

Total
−0.508 134 November 5, 2059

Annular
0.4454
139 April 30, 2060

Total
0.2422 144 October 24, 2060

Annular
−0.2625
149 April 20, 2061

Total
0.9578 154 October 13, 2061

Annular
−0.9639

Saros 134

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843; and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. 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 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]

Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200:
32 33 34

June 6, 1807

June 16, 1825

June 27, 1843
35 36 37

July 8, 1861

July 19, 1879

July 29, 1897
38 39 40

August 10, 1915

August 21, 1933

September 1, 1951
41 42 43

September 11, 1969

September 23, 1987

October 3, 2005
44 45 46

October 14, 2023

October 25, 2041

November 5, 2059
47 48 49

November 15, 2077

November 27, 2095

December 8, 2113
50 51 52

December 19, 2131

December 30, 2149

January 10, 2168
53

January 20, 2186

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).

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.
  2. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 134". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.