An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, March 31, 2071, with a magnitude of 0.9919. 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 eclipse of March 31, 2071 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.3739 |
Magnitude | 0.9919 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 52 s (0 min 52 s) |
Coordinates | 16°42′S 37°00′W / 16.7°S 37°W |
Max. width of band | 31 km (19 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 15:01:06 |
References | |
Saros | 140 (32 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9667 |
Related eclipses
editEclipses in 2071
edit- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 16, 2071.
- An annular solar eclipse on March 31, 2071.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 9, 2071.
- A total solar eclipse on September 23, 2071.
Metonic
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 11, 2067
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2075
Tzolkinex
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 17, 2064
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 2078
Half-Saros
edit- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 25, 2062
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 4, 2080
Tritos
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 30, 2060
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 27, 2082
Solar Saros 140
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 10, 2089
Inex
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100
Triad
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 30, 1984
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 30, 2158
Solar eclipses of 2069–2072
editThis 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]
120 | April 21, 2069 Partial |
125 | October 15, 2069 Partial |
130 | April 11, 2070 Total |
135 | October 4, 2070 Annular |
140 | March 31, 2071 Annular |
145 | September 23, 2071 Total |
150 | March 19, 2072 Partial |
155 | September 12, 2072 Total |
Saros 140
editIt is a part of Saros cycle 140, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 16, 1512. It contains total eclipses from July 21, 1656 through November 9, 1836, hybrid eclipses from November 20, 1854 through December 23, 1908, and annular eclipses from January 3, 1927 through December 7, 2485. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 1, 2774. The longest duration of totality was 4 minutes, 10 seconds on August 12, 1692.
Series members 23–53 occur between 1901 and 2450: | ||
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23 | 24 | 25 |
December 23, 1908 |
January 3, 1927 |
January 14, 1945 |
26 | 27 | 28 |
January 25, 1963 |
February 4, 1981 |
February 16, 1999 |
29 | 30 | 31 |
February 26, 2017 |
March 9, 2035 |
March 20, 2053 |
32 | 33 | 34 |
March 31, 2071 |
April 10, 2089 |
April 23, 2107 |
35 | 36 | 37 |
May 3, 2125 |
May 14, 2143 |
May 25, 2161 |
38 | 39 | 40 |
June 5, 2179 |
June 15, 2197 |
June 28, 2215 |
41 | 42 | 43 |
July 8, 2233 |
July 19, 2251 |
July 29, 2269 |
44 | 45 | 46 |
August 10, 2287 |
August 21, 2305 |
September 1, 2323 |
47 | 48 | 49 |
September 12, 2341 |
September 23, 2359 |
October 3, 2377 |
50 | 51 | 52 |
October 14, 2395 |
October 25, 2413 |
November 5, 2431 |
53 | ||
November 15, 2449 |
Inex series
editThis 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.
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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July 9, 1926 (Saros 135) |
June 20, 1955 (Saros 136) |
May 30, 1984 (Saros 137) |
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
April 20, 2042 (Saros 139) |
March 31, 2071 (Saros 140) |
March 10, 2100 (Saros 141) |
Metonic series
editThe 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).
21 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105 | ||||
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June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
June 12, 2029 |
March 30, 2033 |
January 16, 2037 |
November 4, 2040 |
August 23, 2044 |
128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
June 11, 2048 |
March 30, 2052 |
January 16, 2056 |
November 5, 2059 |
August 24, 2063 |
138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
June 11, 2067 |
March 31, 2071 |
January 16, 2075 |
November 4, 2078 |
August 24, 2082 |
148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | |
June 11, 2086 |
March 31, 2090 |
January 16, 2094 |
November 4, 2097 |
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.
External links
edit- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC