Solar eclipse of February 17, 2064

An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 17, 2064. 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.

Solar eclipse of February 17, 2064
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.3597
Magnitude0.9262
Maximum eclipse
Duration536 sec (8 m 56 s)
Coordinates7°N 69.7°E / 7; 69.7
Max. width of band295 km (183 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse7:00:23
References
Saros141 (26 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9650

Solar eclipses 2062–2065

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]

121March 11, 2062

Partial
126September 3, 2062

Partial
131February 28, 2063

Annular
136August 24, 2063

Total
141February 17, 2064

Annular
146August 12, 2064

Total
151February 5, 2065

Partial
156August 2, 2065

Partial

Saros 141

Solar saros 141, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains 41 annular eclipses from August 4, 1739, to October 14, 2460. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. The longest annular eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955, with maximum duration of annularity at 12 minutes and 9 seconds. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node.[2]

Series members 17–36 occur between 1901 and 2259
17 18 19

November 11, 1901

November 22, 1919

December 2, 1937
20 21 22

December 14, 1955

December 24, 1973

January 4, 1992
23 24 25

January 15, 2010

January 26, 2028

February 5, 2046
26 27 28

February 17, 2064

February 27, 2082

March 10, 2100
29 30 31

March 22, 2118

April 1, 2136

April 12, 2154
32 33 34

April 23, 2172

May 4, 2190

May 15, 2208
35 36

May 27, 2226

June 6, 2244

Inex series

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.

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 ascending node.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.
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