It was the last solar eclipse of 2019. The central path of the 2019 annular eclipse passed through the Saudi Arabian peninsula, southern India, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines and Guam. A partial eclipse was visible thousands of kilometers wide from the central path. It covered small parts of Eastern Europe, much of Asia, North and West Australia, Eastern Africa, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.^[5][6] The eclipse started with an antumbra having a magnitude of 0.96; it stretched 164 kilometers wide, and traveled eastwards at an average rate of 1.1 kilometers per second. The longest duration of annularity was 3 minutes and 40 seconds, at 5.30 UT1 occurring in the South China Sea (0°45'54.0"N 105°29'06.0"E).^[5]

The eclipse began in Saudi Arabia about 220 kilometers northeast of Riyadh at 03:43 UT1 and ended in Guam at 06:59.4 UT1. It reached India near Kannur, Kerala, at 03:56 UT1. The shadow reached the southeast coast of India at 04:04 UT1. Traveling through northern Sri Lanka, it headed into the Bay of Bengal. The next main visible places were Palau (Malaysia), Sumatra and Singapore. It then passed through the South China Sea, crossed Borneo and the Celebes Sea, the Philippines archipelago and then headed towards the western Pacific. The antumbral shadow encountered Guam at 6:56 UT1 and rose back into space.^[5]

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  Partial from Nabih Saleh, Bahrain, 3:32 UTC
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  Partial from Kuwait City, 3:52 UTC
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  Partial from Kochi, India, 3:59 UTC
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  Nilambur, India, 3:59 UTC
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  Mangalore, India, 4:16 UTC
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  Partial from Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5:13 UTC
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  Partial from Jakarta, Indonesia, 5:18 UTC

   

  Partial from Kayuagung, Indonesia, 5:56 UTC
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  Labrador Nature Reserve, Singapore, 5:23 UTC
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  Partial from University of Science, Malaysia, 5:25 UTC
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  Batam, Indonesia, 5:25 UTC
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  Tanjungpinang, Indonesia, 5:25 UTC
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  Partial from Hefei, China, 6:18 UTC
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  Partial from San Jose del Monte, Philippines, 6:19 UTC
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  Partial from Digos, Philippines, 6:21 UTC
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  Merizo, Guam, 6:56 UTC
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  Partial Eclipse (Projection on a Paper) from Chennai, India.
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  Eclipse Progression from Batam, Indonesia

Eclipses of 2019 edit

• A partial solar eclipse on January 6.
• A total lunar eclipse on January 21.
• A total solar eclipse on July 2.
• A partial lunar eclipse on July 16.
• An annular solar eclipse on December 26.

Astronomers Without Borders collected eclipse glasses for redistribution to Latin America and Asia for their 2019 eclipses from the Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017.^[7]

Tzolkinex edit

• Preceded: Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012
• Followed: Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027

Half-Saros cycle edit

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of December 21, 2010
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of December 31, 2028

Tritos edit

• Preceded: Solar eclipse of January 26, 2009
• Followed: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2030

Solar Saros 132 edit

• Preceded: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
• Followed: Solar eclipse of January 5, 2038

Inex edit

• Preceded: Solar eclipse of January 15, 1991
• Followed: Solar eclipse of December 5, 2048

Triad edit

• Preceded: Solar eclipse of February 24, 1933
• Followed: Solar eclipse of October 26, 2106

Solar eclipses 2018–2021 edit

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.^[8]

Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 15, 2018, and August 11, 2018, occurred during the previous semester series.

Saros 132 edit

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2183 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annular was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Metonic series edit

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.^[9]

• Eclipseportal.com Annular Solar Eclipse 2019
• CIMSS Satellite Blog: Annular solar eclipse shadow
• solar-eclipse.de: The total solar eclipse of 12/26/2019
• CESSI Prediction of 26 December 2019 Solar Eclipse
• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements