Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069

Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0624
Magnitude	0.8992
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	71°00′N 101°18′W / 71°N 101.3°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	10:11:09
References
Saros	120 (64 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9663

A partial solar eclipse will occur on April 21, 2069. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2069-2072

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.

120	April 21, 2069 Partial	125	October 15, 2069 Partial
130	April 11, 2070 Total	135	October 4, 2070 Annular
140	March 31, 2071 Annular	145	September 23, 2071 Total
150	March 19, 2072 Partial	155	September 12, 2072 Total

Saros 120

It is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997.^[1]

Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100 

55	56	57
January 14, 1907	January 24, 1925	February 4, 1943
58	59	60
February 15, 1961	February 26, 1979	March 9, 1997
61	62	63
March 20, 2015	March 30, 2033	April 11, 2051
64	65
April 21, 2069	May 2, 2087

References

1. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros120.html

External links

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