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Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049

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Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma−0.1187
Magnitude0.9631
Maximum eclipse
Duration285 s (4 min 45 s)
Coordinates15°18′N 29°54′W / 15.3°N 29.9°W / 15.3; -29.9
Max. width of band134 km (83 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse13:59:59
References
Saros138 (33 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9617

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, May 31, 2049,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9631. 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. Occurring about 4.1 days before apogee (on June 4, 2049, at 15:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.[2]

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of Peru, southern Ecuador, southern Colombia, northern Brazil, southern Venezuela, Guyana, northern Suriname, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, southwestern Mali, northern Guinea, southwestern Burkina Faso, northeastern Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, extreme northern Gabon, northern Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and western Tanzania. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Central America, the Caribbean, northern and central South America, the Southeastern United States, Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middle East.

Images

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Animated path

Eclipse details

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Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[3]

May 31, 2049 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2049 May 31 at 10:59:01.7 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2049 May 31 at 12:02:48.8 UTC
First Central Line 2049 May 31 at 12:04:32.9 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2049 May 31 at 12:06:17.1 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact 2049 May 31 at 13:10:53.8 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2049 May 31 at 13:59:23.1 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2049 May 31 at 13:59:58.8 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2049 May 31 at 14:01:22.0 UTC
Greatest Duration 2049 May 31 at 14:05:27.1 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2049 May 31 at 14:49:03.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2049 May 31 at 15:53:39.3 UTC
Last Central Line 2049 May 31 at 15:55:25.6 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2049 May 31 at 15:57:12.0 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2049 May 31 at 17:01:01.0 UTC
May 31, 2049 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.96312
Eclipse Obscuration 0.92760
Gamma −0.11870
Sun Right Ascension 04h35m51.4s
Sun Declination +22°01'26.4"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'46.5"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 04h35m52.6s
Moon Declination +21°54'56.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter 14'57.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'55.1"
ΔT 83.7 s

Eclipse season

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This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of May–June 2049
May 17
Ascending node (full moon)
May 31
Descending node (new moon)
June 15
Ascending node (full moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 112
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 138
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 150
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Eclipses in 2049

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 138

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 2047–2050

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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.[4]

The partial solar eclipses on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2047 to 2050
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
118 June 23, 2047

Partial
1.3766 123 December 16, 2047

Partial
−1.0661
128 June 11, 2048

Annular
0.6468 133 December 5, 2048

Total
−0.3973
138 May 31, 2049

Annular
−0.1187 143 November 25, 2049

Hybrid
0.2943
148 May 20, 2050

Hybrid
−0.8688 153 November 14, 2050

Partial
1.0447

Saros 138

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482; a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500; and total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. 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 23 at 8 minutes, 2 seconds on February 11, 1869, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 56 seconds on April 3, 2554. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 20–41 occur between 1801 and 2200:
20 21 22

January 10, 1815

January 20, 1833

February 1, 1851
23 24 25

February 11, 1869

February 22, 1887

March 6, 1905
26 27 28

March 17, 1923

March 27, 1941

April 8, 1959
29 30 31

April 18, 1977

April 29, 1995

May 10, 2013
32 33 34

May 21, 2031

May 31, 2049

June 11, 2067
35 36 37

June 22, 2085

July 4, 2103

July 14, 2121
38 39 40

July 25, 2139

August 5, 2157

August 16, 2175
41

August 26, 2193

Metonic series

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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
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

Tritos series

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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 1801 and 2200

April 14, 1809
(Saros 116)

March 14, 1820
(Saros 117)

February 12, 1831
(Saros 118)

January 11, 1842
(Saros 119)

December 11, 1852
(Saros 120)

November 11, 1863
(Saros 121)

October 10, 1874
(Saros 122)

September 8, 1885
(Saros 123)

August 9, 1896
(Saros 124)

July 10, 1907
(Saros 125)

June 8, 1918
(Saros 126)

May 9, 1929
(Saros 127)

April 7, 1940
(Saros 128)

March 7, 1951
(Saros 129)

February 5, 1962
(Saros 130)

January 4, 1973
(Saros 131)

December 4, 1983
(Saros 132)

November 3, 1994
(Saros 133)

October 3, 2005
(Saros 134)

September 1, 2016
(Saros 135)

August 2, 2027
(Saros 136)

July 2, 2038
(Saros 137)

May 31, 2049
(Saros 138)

April 30, 2060
(Saros 139)

March 31, 2071
(Saros 140)

February 27, 2082
(Saros 141)

January 27, 2093
(Saros 142)

December 29, 2103
(Saros 143)

November 27, 2114
(Saros 144)

October 26, 2125
(Saros 145)

September 26, 2136
(Saros 146)

August 26, 2147
(Saros 147)

July 25, 2158
(Saros 148)

June 25, 2169
(Saros 149)

May 24, 2180
(Saros 150)

April 23, 2191
(Saros 151)

Inex series

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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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

November 9, 1817
(Saros 130)

October 20, 1846
(Saros 131)

September 29, 1875
(Saros 132)

September 9, 1904
(Saros 133)

August 21, 1933
(Saros 134)

July 31, 1962
(Saros 135)

July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)

June 21, 2020
(Saros 137)

May 31, 2049
(Saros 138)

May 11, 2078
(Saros 139)

April 23, 2107
(Saros 140)

April 1, 2136
(Saros 141)

March 12, 2165
(Saros 142)

February 21, 2194
(Saros 143)

References

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  1. ^ "May 31, 2049 Annular Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse of 2049 May 31". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 138". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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