Solar eclipse of January 16, 2094

Solar eclipse of January 16, 2094
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.9333
Magnitude 1.0342
Maximum eclipse
Duration 111 sec (1 m 51 s)
Coordinates 84°48′S 10°36′W / 84.8°S 10.6°W / -84.8; -10.6
Max. width of band 329 km (204 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 18:59:03
References
Saros 152 (17 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9718

A total solar eclipse will occur on January 16, 2094. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

This total eclipse is notable in that the path of totality passes over the South Pole.

Solar eclipses 2091-2094

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]

Notes

  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.

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