Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045
| Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045 | |
|---|---|
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.3125 |
| Magnitude | 0.9285 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 467 sec (7 m 47 s) |
| Coordinates | 28°18′S 166°12′W / 28.3°S 166.2°W |
| Max. width of band | 281 km (175 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 23:56:07 |
| References | |
| Saros | 131 (52 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9607 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 16, 2045. 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.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 2044-2047
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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121 | February 28, 2044 Annular |
126 | August 23, 2044 Total | |||
| 131 | February 16, 2045 Annular |
136 | August 12, 2045 Total | |||
| 141 | February 5, 2046 Annular |
146 | August 2, 2046 Total | |||
| 151 | January 26, 2047 Partial |
156 | July 22, 2047 Partial | |||
| Partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur on 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.[1]
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