Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100

Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100
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Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.3384
Magnitude 1.0402
Maximum eclipse
Duration 212 sec (3 m 32 s)
Coordinates 10°30′S 39°00′E / 10.5°S 39°E / -10.5; 39
Max. width of band 142 km (88 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 8:49:20
References
Saros 146 (32 of 76)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9734

A total solar eclipse is forecast to occur on September 4, 2100. 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 2098-2100

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.

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.

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