Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053
Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.4089 |
Magnitude | 0.9919 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 50 s (0 min 50 s) |
Coordinates | 23°S 83°E / 23°S 83°E |
Max. width of band | 31 km (19 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 7:08:19 |
References | |
Saros | 140 (31 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9625 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 20, 2053. 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.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2051-2054
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 August 3, 2054 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2051 to 2054 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120 | April 11, 2051 Partial |
1.0169 | 125 | October 4, 2051 Partial |
−1.2094 | |
130 | March 30, 2052 Total |
0.3238 | 135 | September 22, 2052 Annular |
−0.448 | |
140 | March 20, 2053 Annular |
−0.4089 | 145 | September 12, 2053 Total |
0.314 | |
150 | March 9, 2054 Partial |
−1.1711 | 155 | September 2, 2054 Partial |
1.0215 |
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.
22 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and October 24, 2098 | ||||
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May 31–June 1 | March 19–20 | January 5–6 | October 24–25 | August 12–13 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
June 1, 2011 |
March 20, 2015 |
January 6, 2019 |
October 25, 2022 |
August 12, 2026 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
June 1, 2030 |
March 20, 2034 |
January 5, 2038 |
October 25, 2041 |
August 12, 2045 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
May 31, 2049 |
March 20, 2053 |
January 5, 2057 |
October 24, 2060 |
August 12, 2064 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
May 31, 2068 |
March 19, 2072 |
January 6, 2076 |
October 24, 2079 |
August 13, 2083 |
158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | |
June 1, 2087 |
October 24, 2098 |
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.
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