Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081

Summary

A total solar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, September 3, 2081. 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. The path of totality will begin at the Atlantic Ocean, off European mainland at 07:26:49 UTC and will end at Indonesian island of Java at 10:43:03 UTC.[1]

Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.3378
Magnitude1.072
Maximum eclipse
Duration333 s (5 min 33 s)
Coordinates24°36′N 53°36′E / 24.6°N 53.6°E / 24.6; 53.6
Max. width of band247 km (153 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse9:07:31
References
Saros136 (41 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9690

Countries and territories experiencing totality edit

Major cities edit

Related eclipses edit

Solar eclipses 2080–2083 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.[2]

121 March 21, 2080
 
Partial
126 September 13, 2080
 
Partial
131 March 10, 2081
 
Annular
136 September 3, 2081
 
Total
141 February 27, 2082
 
Annular
146 August 24, 2082
 
Total
151 February 16, 2083
 
Partial
156 August 13, 2083
 
Partial

Saros 136 edit

Solar Saros 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360, and reached a first annular eclipse on September 8, 1504. It was a hybrid event from November 22, 1612, through January 17, 1703, and total eclipses from January 27, 1721, through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622, with the entire series lasting 1262 years. The longest eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955, with a maximum duration of totality at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.[3]

Series members 29–43 occur between 1865 and 2117
29 30 31
 
Apr 25, 1865
 
May 6, 1883
 
May 18, 1901
32 33 34
 
May 29, 1919
 
Jun 8, 1937
 
Jun 20, 1955
35 36 37
 
Jun 30, 1973
 
Jul 11, 1991
 
Jul 22, 2009
38 39 40
 
Aug 2, 2027
 
Aug 12, 2045
 
Aug 24, 2063
41 42 43
 
Sep 3, 2081  
Sep 14, 2099
 
Sep 26, 2117

Inex series edit

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.

Notes edit

  1. ^ "3 September 2081 Total Solar Eclipse". Timeanddate.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ SEsaros136 at NASA.gov

References edit

  • Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
    • Google interactive map
    • Besselian elements