Solar eclipse of June 11, 2048

Solar eclipse of June 11, 2048
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Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.6468
Magnitude 0.9441
Maximum eclipse
Duration 298 sec (4 m 58 s)
Coordinates 63°42′N 11°30′W / 63.7°N 11.5°W / 63.7; -11.5
Max. width of band 272 km (169 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 12:58:53
References
Saros 128 (60 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9615

An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 11, 2048. 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.

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Solar eclipses of 2047-2050

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.

Note: Partial lunar eclises on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur on the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 128

It is a part of Saros cycle 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471 and hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543. Then it progresses into annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453.[1]

References

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros128.html
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