Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061

Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.9639
Magnitude 0.9469
Maximum eclipse
Duration 221 sec (3 m 41 s)
Coordinates 62°06′S 54°24′W / 62.1°S 54.4°W / -62.1; -54.4
Max. width of band 743 km (462 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 10:32:10
References
Saros 154 (9 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9645

An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 13, 2061. 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 eclipses 2059-2061

Each member 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.

Metonic series

References


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