Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044

62°12′S 25°36′W / 62.2°S 25.6°W / -62.2; -25.6Max. width of band- kmTimes (UTC)Greatest eclipse20:24:40ReferencesSaros121 (62 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9605

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Sunday, February 28, 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. 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.

This is the last of 55 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 121. The 1st was in 1070 and the 55th will be in 2044. The total duration is 974 years.

Images

Animated path

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 2044–2047

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 2044 to 2047
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.

References

External links

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2044Feb28A.GIF