Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019

Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.4135
Magnitude	0.9701
Maximum eclipse
Duration	220 sec (3 m 40 s)
Coordinates	1°00′N 102°18′E / 1°N 102.3°E
Max. width of band	118 km (73 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:18:53
References
Saros	132 (46 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9552

An annular solar eclipse will occur on December 26, 2019. 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. The total annular eclipse will be visible in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, southern India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore, parts of Borneo and Guam.

Hamad International Airport in Qatar will narrowly miss the annular path.

Images

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Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2018-2021

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 February 15, 2018, and August 11, 2018, occur during the previous semester series.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2018–2021
Ascending node			Descending node
117	July 13, 2018 Partial		122	January 6, 2019 Partial
127	July 2, 2019 Total		132	December 26, 2019 Annular
137	June 21, 2020 Annular		142	December 14, 2020 Total
147	June 10, 2021 Annular		152	December 4, 2021 Total

Saros 132

It is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2183 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annular was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290.^[1]

Series members 40-50 occur between 1901 and 2100:
40	41	42
October 22, 1911	November 1, 1929	November 12, 1947
43	44	45
November 23, 1965	December 4, 1983	December 14, 2001
46	47	48
December 26, 2019	January 5, 2038	January 16, 2056
49	50
January 27, 2074	February 7, 2092

Metonic series

Octon series with 21 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	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

Notes

1. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros132.html

References

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