Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019
Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 | |
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![]() Annularity as seen from Jaffna, Sri Lanka | |
Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.4135 |
Magnitude | 0.9701 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 220 s (3 min 40 s) |
Coordinates | 1°00′N 102°18′E / 1°N 102.3°E |
Max. width of band | 118 km (73 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 5:18:53 |
References | |
Saros | 132 (46 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9552 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on December 26, 2019. 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 total annular eclipse will be visible in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, southern India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore, parts of Borneo and Guam.
Hamad International Airport in Qatar will narrowly miss the annular path.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2018-2021
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 February 15, 2018 and August 11, 2018 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2018 to 2021 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
117![]() Partial in Melbourne, Australia |
July 13, 2018![]() Partial |
−1.35423 | 122![]() Partial in Nakhodka, Russia |
January 6, 2019![]() Partial |
1.14174 | |
127![]() Totality in La Serena, Chile |
July 2, 2019![]() Total |
−0.64656 | 132![]() Annularity in Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
December 26, 2019![]() Annular |
0.41351 | |
137![]() Annularity in Beigang, Yunlin, Taiwan |
June 21, 2020![]() Annular |
0.12090 | 142![]() Totality in Gorbea, Chile |
December 14, 2020![]() Total |
−0.29394 | |
147![]() Partial in Halifax, Canada |
June 10, 2021![]() Annular |
0.91516 | 152![]() From HMS Protector off South Georgia |
December 4, 2021![]() Total |
−0.95261 |
Saros 132
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146; hybrid eclipses on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2182; and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. 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 25 at 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 34–56 occur between 1801 and 2200: | |||
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34 | 35 | 36 | |
![]() August 17, 1803 |
![]() August 27, 1821 |
![]() September 7, 1839 | |
37 | 38 | 39 | |
![]() September 18, 1857 |
![]() September 29, 1875 |
![]() October 9, 1893 | |
40 | 41 | 42 | |
![]() October 22, 1911 |
![]() November 1, 1929 |
![]() November 12, 1947 | |
43 | 44 | 45 | |
![]() November 23, 1965 |
![]() December 4, 1983 |
![]() December 14, 2001 | |
46 | 47 | 48 | |
![]() December 26, 2019 |
![]() January 5, 2038 |
![]() January 16, 2056 | |
49 | 50 | 51 | |
![]() January 27, 2074 |
![]() February 7, 2092 |
![]() February 18, 2110 | |
52 | 53 | 54 | |
![]() March 1, 2128 |
![]() March 12, 2146 |
![]() March 23, 2164 | |
55 | 56 | ||
![]() April 3, 2182 |
![]() April 14, 2200 |
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 descending node.
21 eclipse events between May 21, 1993 and May 20, 2069 | ||||
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May 20–21 | March 9 | December 25–26 | October 13–14 | August 1–2 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
![]() May 21, 1993 |
![]() March 9, 1997 |
![]() December 25, 2000 |
![]() October 14, 2004 |
![]() August 1, 2008 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
![]() May 20, 2012 |
![]() March 9, 2016 |
![]() December 26, 2019 |
![]() October 14, 2023 |
![]() August 2, 2027 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
![]() May 21, 2031 |
![]() March 9, 2035 |
![]() December 26, 2038 |
![]() October 14, 2042 |
![]() August 2, 2046 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
![]() May 20, 2050 |
![]() March 9, 2054 |
![]() December 26, 2057 |
![]() October 13, 2061 |
![]() August 2, 2065 |
158 | ||||
![]() May 20, 2069 |
Notes
- ^ 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 132". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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