Solar eclipse of January 5, 2057

Solar eclipse of January 5, 2057
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.2837
Magnitude 1.0287
Maximum eclipse
Duration 149 sec (2 m 29 s)
Coordinates 39°12′S 35°12′E / 39.2°S 35.2°E / -39.2; 35.2
Max. width of band 102 km (63 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 9:47:52
References
Saros 142 (25 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9634

A total solar eclipse will occur on January 5, 2057. 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 2054-2058

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.

117August 3, 2054

Partial
122January 27, 2055

Partial
127July 24, 2055

Total
132January 16, 2056

Annular
137July 12, 2056

Annular
142January 5, 2057

Total
147July 1, 2057

Annular
152December 26, 2057

Total
157June 21, 2058

Partial

Saros series 142

It is a part of Saros cycle 142, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 17, 1624. It contains one hybrid eclipse on July 14, 1768, and total eclipses from July 25, 1786 through October 29, 2543. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on June 5, 2904. The longest duration of totality will be 6 minutes, 34 seconds on May 28, 2291.[1]

Tritos series

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.

Metonic series

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).

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