Solar eclipse of October 4, 2051

Future partial solar eclipse

72°00′S 117°42′E / 72°S 117.7°E / -72; 117.7Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse21:02:14ReferencesSaros125 (56 of 73)Catalog # (SE5000)9622

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, October 4, 2051, with a magnitude of 0.6024. 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.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2051

A partial solar eclipse on April 11, 2051.
A total lunar eclipse on April 26, 2051.
A partial solar eclipse on October 4, 2051.
A total lunar eclipse on October 19, 2051.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047
Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 24, 2055

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 16, 2058

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 29, 2042
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 9, 2060

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 4, 1964
Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 5, 2138

Solar eclipses 2051–2054

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2051 to 2054
Descending node		Ascending node
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
120	April 11, 2051 Partial	125	October 4, 2051 Partial
130	March 30, 2052 Total	135	September 22, 2052 Annular
140	March 20, 2053 Annular	145	September 12, 2053 Total
150	March 9, 2054 Partial	155	September 2, 2054 Partial

Saros 125

It is a part of Saros cycle 125, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on February 4, 1060. It contains total eclipses from June 13, 1276 through July 16, 1330, hybrid eclipses on July 26, 1348 and August 7, 1366, and annular eclipses from August 17, 1384 through August 22, 1979. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on April 9, 2358. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 11 seconds on June 25, 1294, and the longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 23 seconds on July 10, 1907.

Series members 48–64 occur between 1900 and 2200:
48	49	50
July 10, 1907	July 20, 1925	August 1, 1943
51	52	53
August 11, 1961	August 22, 1979	September 2, 1997
54	55	56
September 13, 2015	September 23, 2033	October 4, 2051
57	58	59
October 15, 2069	October 26, 2087	November 6, 2105
60	61	62
November 18, 2123	November 28, 2141	December 9, 2159
63	64
December 20, 2177	December 31, 2195

References

^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

External links

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2051Oct04P.GIF

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Lists of eclipses

By era	Antiquity Middle Ages Modern era 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Future
Saros series (list)	109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
Visibility	Australia British Isles China Israel Philippines Russia Turkey Ukraine United States
Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)