Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.3509 |
Magnitude | 0.9326 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 445 s (7 min 25 s) |
Coordinates | 22°00′S 114°30′W / 22°S 114.5°W |
Max. width of band | 266 km (165 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 18:46:13 |
References | |
Saros | 144 (17 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9562 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024. 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 2022-2025
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]
Solar eclipse series sets from 2022 to 2025 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
119 Partial from CTIO, Chile |
2022 April 30 Partial |
−1.19008 | 124 Partial from Saratov, Russia |
2022 October 25 Partial |
1.07014 | |
129 Total from East Timor |
2023 April 20 Hybrid |
−0.39515 | 134 Annular from Campeche, Mexico |
2023 October 14 Annular |
0.37534 | |
139 Total from Indianapolis, USA |
2024 April 8 Total |
0.34314 | 144 | 2024 October 2 Annular |
−0.35087 | |
149 | 2025 March 29 Partial |
1.04053 | 154 | 2025 September 21 Partial |
−1.06509 |
Saros 129
It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses from March 29, 1987 through April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 . All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.[2]
Series members 46–56 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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46 | 47 | 48 |
February 14, 1915 |
February 24, 1933 |
March 7, 1951 |
49 | 50 | 51 |
March 18, 1969 |
March 29, 1987 |
April 8, 2005 |
52 | 53 | 54 |
April 20, 2023 |
April 30, 2041 |
May 11, 2059 |
55 | 56 | |
May 22, 2077 |
June 2, 2095 |
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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
21 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 | ||||
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July 21–22 | May 9–11 | February 26–27 | December 14–15 | October 2–3 |
116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
July 22, 1971 |
May 11, 1975 |
February 26, 1979 |
December 15, 1982 |
October 3, 1986 |
126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
July 22, 1990 |
May 10, 1994 |
February 26, 1998 |
December 14, 2001 |
October 3, 2005 |
136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
July 22, 2009 |
May 10, 2013 |
February 26, 2017 |
December 14, 2020 |
October 2, 2024 |
146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
July 22, 2028 |
May 9, 2032 |
February 27, 2036 |
December 15, 2039 |
October 3, 2043 |
156 | ||||
July 22, 2047 |
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.
- ^ Espenak, F. "NASA Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 129". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC