Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077
Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.4705 |
Magnitude | 0.9371 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 474 s (7 min 54 s) |
Coordinates | 7°48′N 70°48′W / 7.8°N 70.8°W |
Max. width of band | 262 km (163 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 17:07:56 |
References | |
Saros | 134 (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]- A total solar eclipse on May 22.
- A partial lunar eclipse on June 6.
- An annular solar eclipse on November 15.
- A partial lunar eclipse on November 29.
Metonic
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2074
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081
Tzolkinex
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2070
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 27, 2084
Half-Saros
[edit]- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 9, 2068
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 20, 2086
Tritos
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 17, 2066
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2088
Solar Saros 134
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 5, 2059
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 27, 2095
Inex
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 5, 2048
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 26, 2106
Triad
[edit]- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 15, 1991
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 16, 2164
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 | ||||||
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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: | ||
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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 |
Metonic series
[edit]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 descending node.
22 eclipse events between June 23, 2047 and November 16, 2134 | ||||
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June 22–23 | April 10–11 | January 27–29 | November 15–16 | September 3–5 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
June 23, 2047 |
April 11, 2051 |
January 27, 2055 |
November 16, 2058 |
September 3, 2062 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
June 22, 2066 |
April 11, 2070 |
January 27, 2074 |
November 15, 2077 |
September 3, 2081 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
June 22, 2085 |
April 10, 2089 |
January 27, 2093 |
November 15, 2096 |
September 4, 2100 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
June 22, 2104 |
April 11, 2108 |
January 29, 2112 |
November 16, 2115 |
September 5, 2119 |
158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | |
June 23, 2123 |
November 16, 2134 |
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.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
January 1, 1805 (Saros 109) |
October 31, 1826 (Saros 111) |
August 28, 1848 (Saros 113) | ||
July 29, 1859 (Saros 114) |
June 28, 1870 (Saros 115) |
May 27, 1881 (Saros 116) |
April 26, 1892 (Saros 117) |
March 29, 1903 (Saros 118) |
February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) |
January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) |
December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) |
November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) |
October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) |
September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) |
August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) |
July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) |
June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) |
May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) |
April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) |
March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) |
February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) |
January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) |
December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) |
November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) |
September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) |
August 15, 2110 (Saros 137) |
July 14, 2121 (Saros 138) |
June 13, 2132 (Saros 139) |
May 14, 2143 (Saros 140) |
April 12, 2154 (Saros 141) |
March 12, 2165 (Saros 142) |
February 10, 2176 (Saros 143) |
January 9, 2187 (Saros 144) |
December 9, 2197 (Saros 145) |
Inex series
[edit]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.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||
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May 16, 1817 (Saros 125) |
April 25, 1846 (Saros 126) |
April 6, 1875 (Saros 127) |
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |
February 24, 1933 (Saros 129) |
February 5, 1962 (Saros 130) |
January 15, 1991 (Saros 131) |
December 26, 2019 (Saros 132) |
December 5, 2048 (Saros 133) |
November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
October 26, 2106 (Saros 135) |
October 7, 2135 (Saros 136) |
September 16, 2164 (Saros 137) |
August 26, 2193 (Saros 138) |
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 134". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
External links
[edit]- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC