Solar eclipse of December 17, 2066

Solar eclipse of December 17, 2066
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.4043
Magnitude 1.0416
Maximum eclipse
Duration 194 sec (3 m 14 s)
Coordinates 47°24′S 175°48′E / 47.4°S 175.8°E / -47.4; 175.8
Max. width of band 152 km (94 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 0:23:40
References
Saros 133 (48 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9657

A total solar eclipse will occur on December 17, 2066. 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.

Solar eclipses 2065-2069

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.

118July 3, 2065

Partial
123December 27, 2065

Partial
128June 22, 2066

Annular
133December 17, 2066

Total
138June 11, 2067

Annular
143December 6, 2067

Hybrid
148May 31, 2068

Total
153November 24, 2068

Partial
158May 20, 2069

Partial

Saros 133

Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850.[1] The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration.

Notes

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Solar eclipse of 2066 December 17.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/15/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.