Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081

A total solar eclipse will occur on September 3, 2081. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality will begin at the Atlantic Ocean, off European mainland at 07:26:49 UTC and will end at Indonesian island of Java at 10:43:03 UTC.[1]

Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.3378
Magnitude1.072
Maximum eclipse
Duration333 sec (5 m 33 s)
Coordinates24.6°N 53.6°E / 24.6; 53.6
Max. width of band247 km (153 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse9:07:31
References
Saros136 (41 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9690

Countries and territories experiencing totality

Solar eclipses 2080–2083

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.[2]

121March 21, 2080

Partial		 126September 13, 2080

Partial
131March 10, 2081

Annular		 136September 3, 2081

Total
141February 27, 2082

Annular		 146August 24, 2082

Total
151February 16, 2083

Partial		 156August 13, 2083

Partial

Saros 136

Solar Saros 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360, and reached a first annular eclipse on September 8, 1504. It was a hybrid event from November 22, 1612, through January 17, 1703, and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622, with the entire series lasting 1262 years. The longest eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955, with a maximum duration of totality at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.[3]

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.

Notes
  1. "3 September 2081 Total Solar Eclipse". Timeanddate.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. SEsaros136 at NASA.gov

References


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