Solar eclipse of February 26, 2017
| Solar eclipse of February 26, 2017 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.4578 |
| Magnitude | 0.9922 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 44 sec (0 m 44 s) |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Max. width of band | 31 km (19 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 14:54:33 |
| References | |
| Saros | 140 (29 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9545 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 26, 2017. 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. It will be visible across southern South America in the morning and it ends in south-western Africa at sunset.
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Solar eclipses 2015-2018
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.
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| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
120 Longyearbyen, Norway |
March 20, 2015 Total |
125 | September 13, 2015 Partial |
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| 130 | March 9, 2016 Total |
135 | September 1, 2016 150px Annular |
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| 140 | February 26, 2017 Annular |
145 | August 21, 2017 150px Total |
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| 150 | February 15, 2018 Partial |
155 | August 11, 2018 Partial |
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| Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series. | ||||||
Metonic cycle
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).
| This series has 21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 | ||||
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| July 21-22 | May 9-11 | February 26-27 | December 14-15 | October 2-3 |
| 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
 July 22, 1971 |
 May 11, 1975 |
 February 26, 1979 |
 December 15, 1982 |
 October 3, 1986 |
| 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
 July 22, 1990 |
 May 10, 1994 |
 February 26, 1998 |
 December 14, 2001 |
 October 3, 2005 |
| 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
 July 22, 2009 |
 May 10, 2013 |
February 26, 2017 |
 December 14, 2020 |
 October 2, 2024 |
| 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
 July 22, 2028 |
 May 9, 2032 |
 February 27, 2036 |
 December 15, 2039 |
 October 3, 2043 |
| 156 | ||||
| 150px July 22, 2047 |
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