Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019
Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.4135 |
Magnitude | 0.9701 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 220 sec (3 m 40 s) |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Max. width of band | 118 km (73 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 5:18:53 |
References | |
Saros | 132 (46 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9552 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on December 26, 2019. 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. The total annular eclipse will be visible in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, southern India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore, parts of Borneo and Guam.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2018-2021
Each member 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.
Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 15, 2018, and August 11, 2018, occur during the previous semester series.
Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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117 | July 13, 2018 Partial |
122 | January 6, 2019 Partial |
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127 | July 2, 2019 Total |
132 | December 26, 2019 Annular |
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137 | June 21, 2020 Annular |
142 | December 14, 2020 Total |
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147 | June 10, 2021 Annular |
152 | December 4, 2021 Total |
Saros 132
It is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2183 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annular was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290.[1]
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Series members 40-50 occur between 1901 and 2100:
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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).
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This octon series has 21 eclipse events between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065.
May 20-21 | March 9 | December 25-26 | October 13-14 | August 1-2 |
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118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
May 21, 1993 |
March 9, 1997 |
December 25, 2000 |
October 14, 2004 |
August 1, 2008 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
May 20, 2012 |
March 9, 2016 |
December 26, 2019 |
October 14, 2023 |
August 2, 2027 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
May 21, 2031 |
March 9, 2035 |
December 26, 2038 |
October 14, 2042 |
150px August 2, 2046 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
May 20, 2050 |
March 9, 2054 |
December 26, 2057 |
October 13, 2061 |
August 2, 2065 |
158 | ||||
May 20, 2069 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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