Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069
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.
Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.0624 |
Magnitude | 0.8992 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 71°N 101.3°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 10:11:09 |
References | |
Saros | 120 (64 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9663 |
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 2069–2072
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[1]
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
This eclipse 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. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.
Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100 | ||
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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
- van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC