Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003

Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003
Partial from Florenville, Belgium
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.996
Magnitude	0.9384
Maximum eclipse
Duration	217 sec (3 m 37 s)
Coordinates	66°36′N 24°30′W / 66.6°N 24.5°W
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	4:09:22
References
Saros	147 (22 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9515

An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 31, 2003. 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. Annularity was visible across central Greenland and northern Scotland. Partiality was visible throughout Europe, Asia, and far northwestern Canada.

Images

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  From Belfort, France

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  From Wonneberg, Germany

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  From Ringerike, Norway

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2000-2003

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 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000–2003
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
117	July 1, 2000 Partial (south)		122	December 25, 2000 Partial (north)
127 Totality from Lusaka	June 21, 2001 Total		132 Partial from Minneapolis	December 14, 2001 Annular
137 Partial from Los Angeles	June 10, 2002 Annular		142 Totality from Woomera, SA	December 4, 2002 Total
147 Partial from Belfort	May 31, 2003 Annular		152	November 23, 2003 Total

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).

21 eclipse events between August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018
August 10-12	May 30	March 18	January 4-5	October 23-24
115	117	119	121	123
August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950	January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957
125	127	129	131	133
August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969	January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976
135	137	139	141	143
August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988	January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995
145	147	149	151	153
August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007	January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014
155
August 11, 2018

See also

• List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom 1000–2090 AD

Notes

References

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

Photos:

• Spaceweather.com solar eclipse gallery
• Czech Republic. Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site
• Eclipse in the Mist, APOD 6/4/2003, Dawn partial from Charneux, Belgium
• Ring of Fire from Cape Wrath, APOD 6/5/2003, Annular eclipse from Cape Wrath, northwestern coast of Scotland
• Sun, Moon, Hot Air Balloon, APOD 6/6/2003, partial eclipse from Bonn, Germany
• Clouds and the Moon Move to Block the Sun, APOD 6/18/2003, partial eclipse from Vienna, Austria
• Photos of solar eclipse around the world