Solar eclipse of October 4, 2070

Solar eclipse of October 4, 2070
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.495
Magnitude 0.9731
Maximum eclipse
Duration 164 sec (2 m 44 s)
Coordinates 32°48′S 60°24′E / 32.8°S 60.4°E / -32.8; 60.4
Max. width of band 110 km (68 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 7:08:57
References
Saros 135 (42 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9666

An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 4, 2070. 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 eclipses 2069-2072

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 21, 2069

Partial		 125October 15, 2069

Partial
130April 11, 2070

Total		 135October 4, 2070

Annular
140March 31, 2071

Annular		 145September 23, 2071

Total
150March 19, 2072

Partial		 155September 12, 2072

Total

Inex series

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.

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