Solar eclipse of March 31, 2071
An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 31, 2071. 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.
Solar eclipse of March 31, 2071 | |
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Map | |
Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | -0.3739 |
Magnitude | 0.9919 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 52 sec (0 m 52 s) |
Coordinates | 16.7°S 37°W |
Max. width of band | 31 km (19 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 15:01:06 |
References | |
Saros | 140 (32 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9667 |
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 140
It is a part of Saros cycle 140, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 16, 1512. It contains total eclipses from July 21, 1656 through November 9, 1836, hybrid eclipses from November 20, 1854 through December 23, 1908, and annular eclipses from January 3, 1927 through December 7, 2485. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 1, 2774. The longest duration of totality was 4 minutes, 10 seconds on August 12, 1692.
Series members 23–53 occur between 1901 and 2450: | ||
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23 | 24 | 25 |
Dec 23, 1908 |
Jan 3, 1927 |
Jan 14, 1945 |
26 | 27 | 28 |
Jan 25, 1963 |
Feb 4, 1981 |
Feb 16, 1999 |
29 | 30 | 31 |
Feb 26, 2017 |
Mar 9, 2035 |
Mar 20, 2053 |
32 | 33 | 34 |
Mar 31, 2071 |
Apr 10, 2089 |
Apr 23, 2107 |
35 | 36 | 37 |
May 3, 2125 |
May 14, 2143 |
May 25, 2161 |
38 | 39 | 40 |
Jun 5, 2179 |
Jun 15, 2197 |
Jun 28, 2215 |
41 | 42 | 43 |
Jul 8, 2233 |
Jul 19, 2251 |
Jul 29, 2269 |
44 | 45 | 46 |
Aug 10, 2287 |
Aug 21, 2305 |
Sep 1, 2323 |
47 | 48 | 49 |
Sep 12, 2341 |
Sep 23, 2359 |
Oct 3, 2377 |
50 | 51 | 52 |
Oct 14, 2395 |
Oct 25, 2413 |
Nov 5, 2431 |
53 | ||
Nov 15, 2449 |
Inex series
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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July 9, 1926 (Saros 135) |
June 20, 1955 (Saros 136) |
May 30, 1984 (Saros 137) |
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
April 20, 2042 (Saros 139) |
March 31, 2071 (Saros 140) |
March 10, 2100 (Saros 141) |
Metonic cycle
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 June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105 | ||||
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June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
June 12, 2029 |
March 30, 2033 |
January 16, 2037 |
November 4, 2040 |
August 23, 2044 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
June 11, 2048 |
March 30, 2052 |
January 16, 2056 |
November 5, 2059 |
August 24, 2063 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
June 11, 2067 |
March 31, 2071 |
January 16, 2075 |
November 4, 2078 |
August 24, 2082 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | |
June 11, 2086 |
March 31, 2090 |
January 16, 2094 |
November 4, 2097 |
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