Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016

• A total solar eclipse on March 9.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 23.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 18.
• An annular solar eclipse on September 1.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 16.

• Saros 125: Partial Solar Eclipse September 13, 2015
• Saros 135: Annular Solar Eclipse September 1, 2016
• Saros 145: Total Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017
• Saros 155: Partial Solar Eclipse August 11, 2018

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2015–2018
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
120 Longyearbyen, Svalbard	2015 March 20 Total	0.9453		125	2015 September 13 Partial	-1.1004
130 Balikpapan, Indonesia	2016 March 9 Total	0.2609		135 L'Étang-Salé, Réunion	2016 September 1 Annular	-0.3330
140 Partial from Buenos Aires	2017 February 26 Annular	-0.4578		145 Casper, Wyoming	2017 August 21 Total	0.4367
150 Partial from Olivos, Buenos Aires	2018 February 15 Partial	-1.2117		155 Partial from Huittinen, Finland	2018 August 11 Partial	1.1476
Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305, hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341 and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.

Series members 27–43 occur between 1800 and 2100:
27	28	29
Apr 24, 1800	May 5, 1818	May 15, 1836
30	31	32
May 26, 1854	Jun 6, 1872	Jun 17, 1890
33	34	35
Jun 28, 1908	Jul 9, 1926	Jul 20, 1944
36	37	38
Jul 31, 1962	Aug 10, 1980	Aug 22, 1998
39	40	41
Sep 1, 2016	Sep 12, 2034	Sep 22, 2052
42	43
Oct 4, 2070	Oct 14, 2088

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058
June 21	April 8–9	January 26	November 13–14	September 1–2
107	109	111	113	115
June 21, 1963	April 9, 1967	January 26, 1971	November 14, 1974	September 2, 1978
117	119	121	123	125
June 21, 1982	April 9, 1986	January 26, 1990	November 13, 1993	September 2, 1997
127	129	131	133	135
June 21, 2001	April 8, 2005	January 26, 2009	November 13, 2012	September 1, 2016
137	139	141	143	145
June 21, 2020	April 8, 2024	January 26, 2028	November 14, 2031	September 2, 2035
147	149	151	153	155
June 21, 2039	April 9, 2043	January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058