Solar eclipse of April 30, 2060 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.2422 |
Magnitude | 1.066 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 315 s (5 min 15 s) |
Coordinates | 28°00′N 20°54′E / 28°N 20.9°E |
Max. width of band | 222 km (138 mi) |
Times ( UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 10:10:00 |
References | |
Saros | 139 (32 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9642 |
A total solar eclipse will occur on Friday, April 30, 2060. 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.
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]
Solar eclipses 2059 to 2061 | |||||
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119 |
May 22, 2058 Partial |
124 |
November 16, 2058 Partial | ||
129 |
May 11, 2059 Total |
134 |
November 5, 2059 Annular | ||
139 |
April 30, 2060 Total |
144 |
October 24, 2060 Annular | ||
149 |
April 20, 2061 Total |
154 |
October 13, 2061 Annular |
This eclipse is a member of saros series 139, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 17, 1501. It contains hybrid eclipses on August 11, 1627, through to December 9, 1825; and total eclipses from December 21, 1843, through to March 26, 2601. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 3, 2763. 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 solar eclipse of June 13, 2132, will be the longest total solar eclipse since July 11, 1991, at 6 minutes, 55.02 seconds.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 39 at 7 minutes, 29.22 seconds on July 16, 2186. [2] After that date, the durations of totality will decrease until the series ends. This date is the longest solar eclipse computed between 4000 BC and AD 6000. [3] Saros series eclipses occur during the Moon's ascending node (a term related to our equator and polar-naming conventions).
Series members 24–45 occur between 1901 and 2300 | ||
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24 | 25 | 26 |
February 3, 1916 |
February 14, 1934 |
February 25, 1952 |
27 | 28 | 29 |
March 7, 1970 |
March 18, 1988 |
March 29, 2006 |
30 | 31 | 32 |
April 8, 2024 |
April 20, 2042 |
April 30, 2060 |
33 | 34 | 35 |
May 11, 2078 |
May 22, 2096 |
June 3, 2114 |
36 | 37 | 38 |
June 13, 2132 |
June 25, 2150 |
July 5, 2168 |
39 | 40 | 41 |
July 16, 2186 |
July 27, 2204 |
August 8, 2222 |
42 | 43 | 44 |
August 18, 2240 |
August 29, 2258 |
September 9, 2276 |
45 | ||
September 20, 2294 |
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.
21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 13, 2018, and July 12, 2094 | ||||
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July 12–13 | April 30-May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
July 13, 2018 |
April 30, 2022 |
February 17, 2026 |
December 5, 2029 |
September 23, 2033 |
127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
July 13, 2037 |
April 30, 2041 |
February 16, 2045 |
December 5, 2048 |
September 22, 2052 |
137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
July 12, 2056 |
April 30, 2060 |
February 17, 2064 |
December 6, 2067 |
September 23, 2071 |
147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
July 13, 2075 |
May 1, 2079 |
February 16, 2083 |
December 6, 2086 |
September 23, 2090 |
157 | ||||
July 12, 2094 |