Solar eclipse of April 21, 2088

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]

120	May 2, 2087 Partial	125	October 26, 2087 Partial
130	April 21, 2088 Total	135	October 14, 2088 Annular
140	April 10, 2089 Annular	145	October 4, 2089 Total
150	March 31, 2090 Partial	155	September 23, 2090 Total

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.[2]

Series members 43–56 between 1853 and 2300
43	44	45
November 30, 1853	December 12, 1871	December 22, 1889
46	47	48
January 3, 1908	January 14, 1926	January 25, 1944
49	50	51
February 5, 1962	February 16, 1980	February 26, 1998
52	53	54
March 9, 2016	March 20, 2034	March 30, 2052
55	56	57
April 11, 2070	April 21, 2088	May 3, 2106
58	59	60
May 14, 2124	May 25, 2142	June 4, 2160
61	62	63
June 16, 2178	June 26, 2196	July 8, 2214
64	65	66
July 18, 2232	July 30, 2250	August 9, 2268
67
August 20, 2286