Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027

Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.2952
Magnitude	0.9281
Maximum eclipse
Duration	471 sec (7 m 51 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	282 km (175 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	16:00:48
References
Saros	131 (51 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9567

An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 6, 2027. 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.

Images

File:SE2027Feb06A.gif
Animated path

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2026-2029

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2026-2029

Ascending node			Descending node
121	February 17, 2026 150px Annular		126	August 12, 2026 Total
131	February 6, 2027 Annular		136	August 2, 2027 Total
141	January 26, 2028 Annular		146	July 22, 2028 Total
151	January 14, 2029 Partial		156	July 11, 2029 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on June 12, 2029, and December 5, 2029, occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

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.

Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:

46	47	48
December 3, 1918	December 13, 1936	December 25, 1954
49	50	51
January 4, 1973	January 15, 1991	January 26, 2009
52	53	54
February 6, 2027	150px February 16, 2045	150px February 28, 2063
55	56
March 10, 2081	March 21, 2099

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076.

July 1-2	April 19-20	February 5-7	November 24-25	September 12-13
117	119	121	123	125
July 1, 2000	April 19, 2004	February 7, 2008	November 25, 2011	September 13, 2015
127	129	131	133	135
July 2, 2019	April 20, 2023	February 6, 2027	November 25, 2030	September 12, 2034
137	139	141	143	145
July 2, 2038	April 20, 2042	February 5, 2046	November 25, 2049	September 12, 2053
147	149	151	153	155
July 1, 2057	April 20, 2061	February 5, 2065	November 24, 2068	September 12, 2072
157
July 1, 2076

External links

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2027Feb06A.GIF