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Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077

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Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4705
Magnitude0.9371
Maximum eclipse
Duration474 s (7 min 54 s)
Coordinates7°48′N 70°48′W / 7.8°N 70.8°W / 7.8; -70.8
Max. width of band262 km (163 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse17:07:56
References
Saros134 (47 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9682

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, November 15, 2077, with a magnitude of 0.9371. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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. The path of annularity will cross North America and South America. This will be the 47th solar eclipse of Saros cycle 134. A small annular eclipse will cover only 93.71% of the Sun in a very broad path, 262 km wide at maximum, and will last 7 minutes and 54 seconds. Occurring only 4 days after apogee (on Thursday, November 11, 2077), the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller.

Eclipse Details[edit]

  • Eclipse Magnitude = 0.93707
  • Eclipse Obscuration = 0.87810
  • Gamma = 0.47047
  • Saros Series = 134th (47 of 71)
  • Greatest Eclipse = 15 Nov 2077 17:06:10.2 UTC
  • Ecliptic Conjunction = 15 Nov 2077 17:00:37.8 UTC
  • Equatorial Conjunction = 15 Nov 2077 16:46:06.0 UTC
  • Sun right ascension = 15.44
  • Sun declination = -18.8
  • Sun diameter (arcseconds) = 1940.2
  • Moon right ascension = 15.45
  • Moon declination = -18.4
  • Moon diameter (arcseconds) = 1793.8
  • Geocentric Libration of the Moon
  • Latitude: 3.3 degrees south
  • Longitude: 0.6 degrees west
  • Direction: 12.7 (NNE)
  • Date of this Annular Solar Eclipse: Monday, 15 November 2077

Related eclipses[edit]

Eclipses in 2077[edit]

Metonic[edit]

Tzolkinex[edit]

Half-Saros[edit]

Tritos[edit]

Solar Saros 134[edit]

Inex[edit]

Triad[edit]

Solar eclipses of 2076–2079[edit]

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]

The partial solar eclipses on January 6, 2076 and July 1, 2076 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2076 to 2079
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
119 June 1, 2076

Partial 		−1.3897 124 November 26, 2076

Partial 		1.1401
129 May 22, 2077

Total 		−0.5725 134 November 15, 2077

Annular 		0.4705
139 May 11, 2078

Total 		0.1838 144 November 4, 2078

Annular 		−0.2285
149 May 1, 2079

Total 		0.9081 154 October 24, 2079

Annular 		−0.9243

Saros 134[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843; and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]

Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200:
32 33 34

June 6, 1807
June 16, 1825
June 27, 1843
35 36 37

July 8, 1861
July 19, 1879
July 29, 1897
38 39 40

August 10, 1915
August 21, 1933
September 1, 1951
41 42 43

September 11, 1969
September 23, 1987
October 3, 2005
44 45 46

October 14, 2023
October 25, 2041
November 5, 2059
47 48 49

November 15, 2077
November 27, 2095
December 8, 2113
50 51 52

December 19, 2131
December 30, 2149
January 10, 2168
53

January 20, 2186

Tritos series[edit]

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

References[edit]

  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. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 134". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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