Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
| Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | 0.9613 |
| Magnitude | 1.0364 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 124 sec (2 m 4 s) |
| Coordinates | 64°18′N 120°24′W / 64.3°N 120.4°W |
| Max. width of band | 453 km (281 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 1:17:02 |
| References | |
| Saros | 126 (49 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9606 |
A total solar eclipse will occur on August 23, 2044. 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.
Totality will be visible across the Northwest Territories and Alberta in Canada and Montana and partially in North Dakota in the United States of America, and partiality will be visible throughout the western United States near sunset.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 2044-2047
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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121 | February 28, 2044 Annular |
126 | August 23, 2044 Total | |||
| 131 | February 16, 2045 Annular |
136 | August 12, 2045 Total | |||
| 141 | February 5, 2046 Annular |
146 | August 2, 2046 Total | |||
| 151 | January 26, 2047 Partial |
156 | July 22, 2047 Partial | |||
| Partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur on the next lunar year eclipse set. | ||||||
Saros 126
It is a part of Saros cycle 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810 and hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864. It contains total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. The longest duration of central eclipse (annular or total) was 5 minutes, 46 seconds of annularity on November 22, 1593. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972.[1]
| Series members 39–49 occur between 1901 and 2100 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
 June 8, 1918 |
 June 19, 1936 |
 June 30, 1954 |
| 42 | 43 | 44 |
 July 10, 1972 |
 July 22, 1990 |
 August 1, 2008 |
| 45 | 46 | 47 |
 August 12, 2026 |
August 23, 2044 |
 September 3, 2062 |
| 48 | 49 | |
 September 13, 2080 |
 September 25, 2098 | |
References
- ↑ Solar_Saros_series_126, accessed October 2010
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