Solar eclipse of June 12, 2029

66°48′N 66°12′W / 66.8°N 66.2°W / 66.8; -66.2Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse4:06:13ReferencesSaros118 (69 of 72)Catalog # (SE5000)9572

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, June 12, 2029. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

The eclipse will be visible from Northern and Central Europe, northern Russia, Arctic, Greenland, and northern North America.

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Solar eclipses 2029–2032

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]

Note: Partial solar eclipses on January 14, 2029 and July 11, 2029 occur on the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2029 to 2032
Descending node			Ascending node
118	June 12, 2029 Partial		123	December 5, 2029 Partial
128	June 1, 2030 Annular		133	November 25, 2030 Total
138	May 21, 2031 Annular		143	November 14, 2031 Hybrid
148	May 9, 2032 Annular		153	November 3, 2032 Partial

Saros 118

It is a part of Saros cycle 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 CE. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 CE through October 25, 1650, hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668, and November 15, 1686, and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704, through April 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on July 15, 2083. The longest duration of total was 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398.

Series members 62–72 occur between 1901 and 2083:
62	63	64
Mar 29, 1903	Apr 8, 1921	Apr 19, 1939
65	66	67
Apr 30, 1957	May 11, 1975	May 21, 1993
68	69	70
Jun 1, 2011	Jun 12, 2029	Jun 23, 2047
71	72
Jul 3, 2065	Jul 15, 2083

Metonic cycle

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).

21 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105
June 11–12	March 30–31	January 16	November 4–5	August 23–24
118	120	122	124	126
June 12, 2029	March 30, 2033	January 16, 2037	November 4, 2040	August 23, 2044
128	130	132	134	136
June 11, 2048	March 30, 2052	January 16, 2056	November 5, 2059	August 24, 2063
138	140	142	144	146
June 11, 2067	March 31, 2071	January 16, 2075	November 4, 2078	August 24, 2082
148	150	152	154
June 11, 2086	March 31, 2090	January 16, 2094	November 4, 2097

References

Lists of eclipses

By era	Antiquity Middle Ages Modern era 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Future
Saros series (list)	110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
Visibility	Australia British Isles China Israel Philippines Russia Turkey Ukraine United States
Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)

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