Solar eclipse of April 11, 2051

Solar eclipse of April 11, 2051
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Partial
Gamma 1.0169
Magnitude 0.9849
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 71°36′N 32°12′E / 71.6°N 32.2°E / 71.6; 32.2
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 2:10:39
References
Saros 120 (63 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9621

A partial solar eclipse will occur on April 11, 2051. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

The umbral shadow of the moon will pass just above the north pole of the earth.

Solar eclipses 2051-2054

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.

120April 11, 2051

Partial
125October 4, 2051

Partial
130March 30, 2052

Total
135September 22, 2052

Annular
140March 20, 2053

Annular
145September 12, 2053

Total
150March 9, 2054

Partial
155September 2, 2054

Partial

Saros 120

It is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997.[1]

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