Solar eclipse of May 20, 2050

Solar eclipse of May 20, 2050
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Hybrid
Gamma	-0.8688
Magnitude	1.0038
Maximum eclipse
Duration	21 sec (0 m 21 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	27 km (17 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:42:50
References
Saros	148 (23 of 75)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9619

A total solar eclipse will occur on May 20, 2050. It is a hybrid event, being short duration total eclipse for a middle portion of its path, starting and ending as an annular eclipse. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2047-2050

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 lunar eclises on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur on the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2047-2050

Ascending node			Descending node
118	June 23, 2047 Partial		123	December 16, 2047 Partial
128	June 11, 2048 Annular		133	December 5, 2048 Total
138	May 31, 2049 Annular		143	November 25, 2049 Hybrid
148	May 20, 2049 Hybrid		153	November 14, 2050 Partial

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).

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
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

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements