Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, March 29, 2025. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma1.0405
Magnitude0.9376
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates61.1°N 77.1°W / 61.1; -77.1
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse10:48:36
References
Saros149 (21 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9563

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Eclipses of 2025

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 2022–2025
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 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 149

Solar saros 149, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It has total eclipses from April 9, 2043, to October 2, 2331. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. The longest total eclipse will be on July 17, 2205, at 4 minutes and 10 seconds.[2]

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100:
15 16 17

January 23, 1917

February 3, 1935

February 14, 1953
18 19 20

February 25, 1971

March 7, 1989

March 19, 2007
21 22 23

March 29, 2025

April 9, 2043

April 20, 2061
24 25

May 1, 2079

May 11, 2097

Tritos series

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.

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.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036
June 10–11 March 27–29 January 15–16 November 3 August 21–22
117 119 121 123 125

June 10, 1964

March 28, 1968

January 16, 1972

November 3, 1975

August 22, 1979
127 129 131 133 135

June 11, 1983

March 29, 1987

January 15, 1991

November 3, 1994

August 22, 1998
137 139 141 143 145

June 10, 2002

March 29, 2006

January 15, 2010

November 3, 2013

August 21, 2017
147 149 151 153 155

June 10, 2021

March 29, 2025

January 14, 2029

November 3, 2032

August 21, 2036

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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