Solar eclipse of September 2, 2054

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, September 2, 2054. 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 September 2, 2054
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma1.0215
Magnitude0.9793
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates71.7°N 82.3°W / 71.7; -82.3
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse1:09:34
References
Saros155 (8 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9628

This is the last of first set of partial eclipses of Solar Saros 155. The next event is the Total Solar Eclipse on September 12, 2072, which is the first of 56 umbral eclipses, starting in 2072 and ending in 3064. The total duration is almost one millennium, exactly 992 years.

Solar eclipses 2051–2054

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]

Saros 155 series

It is a part of Saros cycle 155, repeating every 18 years, 11 days (223 synodic months), contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 17, 1928. It has total eclipses from September 12, 2072 to August 30, 2649. The series also has 3 hybrid eclipses from September 10, 2667 to October 3, 2703 and 20 annular eclipses from October 13, 2721 to May 8, 3064.

The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 24, 3190. The longest total eclipses will be on October 26, 2144 and on November 7, 2162, at 4 minutes and 5 seconds.[2]

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

References
  1. 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.
  2. Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.
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