Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045

Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045
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Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.3125
Magnitude 0.9285
Maximum eclipse
Duration 467 sec (7 m 47 s)
Coordinates 28°18′S 166°12′W / 28.3°S 166.2°W / -28.3; -166.2
Max. width of band 281 km (175 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 23:56:07
References
Saros 131 (52 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9607

An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 16, 2045. 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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Solar eclipses of 2044-2047

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]

Saros 131

It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612.[2]

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. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros131.html


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