Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056

Summary

An annular solar eclipse will occur on January 16, 2056. 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 eclipse of January 16, 2056
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4199
Magnitude0.9759
Maximum eclipse
Duration172 s (2 min 52 s)
Coordinates3°54′N 153°30′W / 3.9°N 153.5°W / 3.9; -153.5
Max. width of band95 km (59 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse22:16:45
References
Saros132 (48 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9632

Related eclipses edit

Solar eclipses 2054–2058 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.[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2054 to 2058
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Saros Map
117 August 3, 2054
 
Partial
122 January 27, 2055
 
Partial
127 July 24, 2055
 
Total
132 January 16, 2056
 
Annular
137 July 12, 2056
 
Annular
142 January 5, 2057
 
Total
147 July 1, 2057
 
Annular
152 December 26, 2057
 
Total
157 June 21, 2058
 
Partial

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 22, 2164 and April 3, 2182 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 annularity 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.

Series members 28–50 occur between 1690 and 2100:
28 29 30
 
June 11, 1695
 
June 22, 1713
 
July 4, 1731
31 32 33
 
July 14, 1749
 
July 25, 1767
 
August 5, 1785
34 35 36
 
August 17, 1803
 
August 27, 1821
 
September 7, 1839
37 38 39
 
September 18, 1857
 
September 29, 1875
 
October 9, 1893
40 41 42
 
October 22, 1911
 
November 1, 1929
 
November 12, 1947
43 44 45
 
November 23, 1965
 
December 4, 1983
 
December 14, 2001
46 47 48
 
December 26, 2019
 
January 5, 2038
 
January 16, 2056 49 50  
January 27, 2074
 
February 7, 2092

Tritos series edit

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 cycle 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).

References edit

  1. ^ 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 edit

  • NASA graphics