Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052

Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052
Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.448
Magnitude	0.9734
Maximum eclipse
Duration	171 s (2 min 51 s)
Coordinates	25°42′S 175°00′E / 25.7°S 175°E
Max. width of band	106 km (66 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	23:39:10
References
Saros	135 (41 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9624

An annular solar eclipse will occur on September 22, 2052. 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
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