Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

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Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012
Annular Eclipse. Taken from Middlegate, Nevada on May 20, 2012.jpg
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Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.4828
Magnitude 0.9439
Maximum eclipse
Duration 346 sec (5 m 46 s)
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band 237 km (147 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin 20:56:07
(U1) Total begin 22:06:17
Greatest eclipse 23:53:54
(U4) Total end 1:39:11
(P4) Partial end 2:49:21
References
Saros 128 (58 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9535

An annular solar eclipse took place on May 20, 2012 (May 21, 2012 in local time in the Eastern Hemisphere), with a magnitude of 0.9439. 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.

Visibility

North America

It was the first annular eclipse in the continental U.S. since the solar eclipse of May 10, 1994 which was also the previous eclipse of this series Solar Saros 128.

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Animation as viewed from Albuquerque, New Mexico, showing sunset before the eclipse ends
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Animation of eclipse path from space
Hong Kong

It was predicted that the antumbra will pass over Hong Kong but due to weather it was not observable.

Photo Gallery

Asia
North America

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

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 January 4, 2011, and July 1, 2011, occur in the previous semester series.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Saros Map
118 June 1, 2011
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Partial		 123 November 25, 2011
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Partial
128
Annular Eclipse. Taken from Middlegate, Nevada on May 20, 2012.jpg
Middlegate, Nevada		 May 20, 2012
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Annular		 133
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Ellis Beach, Queensland		 November 13, 2012
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Total
138
Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Renner Springs, Australia		 May 10, 2013
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Annular		 143
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Partial from Accra, Ghana		 November 3, 2013
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Hybrid
148 April 29, 2014
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Annular		 153
Partial solar eclipse Oct 23 2014 Minneapolis 5-36pm Ruen1.png
Partial from Minneapolis, Minnesota		 October 23, 2014
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Partial

Saros 128

It is a part of Saros cycle 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471 and hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543. Then it progresses into annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453.[1]

Series members 52-62 occur between 1901 and 2100:

52 53 54
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March 17, 1904		 150px
March 28, 1922		 150px
April 7, 1940
55 56 57
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April 19, 1958		 SE1976Apr29A.png
April 29, 1976		 SE1994May10A.png
May 10, 1994
58 59 60
SE2012May20A.png
May 20, 2012		 SE2030Jun01A.png
June 1, 2030		 SE2048Jun11A.png
June 11, 2048
61 62
SE2066Jun22A.png
June 22, 2066		 150px
July 3, 2084

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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Octon eclipses between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065

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
118 120 122 124 126
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May 21, 1993		 SE1997Mar09T.png
March 9, 1997		 SE2000Dec25P.png
December 25, 2000		 SE2004Oct14P.png
October 14, 2004		 SE2008Aug01T.png
August 1, 2008
128 130 132 134 136
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May 20, 2012		 SE2016Mar09T.png
March 9, 2016		 SE2019Dec26A.png
December 26, 2019		 SE2023Oct14A.png
October 14, 2023		 SE2027Aug02T.png
August 2, 2027
138 140 142 144 146
SE2031May21A.png
May 21, 2031		 SE2035Mar09A.png
March 9, 2035		 SE2038Dec26T.png
December 26, 2038		 SE2042Oct14A.png
October 14, 2042		 150px
August 2, 2046
148 150 152 154 156
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May 20, 2050		 SE2054Mar09P.png
March 9, 2054		 SE2057Dec26T.png
December 26, 2057		 SE2061Oct13A.png
October 13, 2061		 SE2065Aug02P.png
August 2, 2065
158
SE2069May20P.png
May 20, 2069

Notes

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros128.html

References

External links

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