Solar eclipse of May 11, 2040

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62°48′S 174°24′E / 62.8°S 174.4°E / -62.8; 174.4Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse3:43:02ReferencesSaros119 (67 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9597

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Friday, May 11, 2040. 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.

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Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 2040–2043

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 2040 to 2043
Ascending node   Descending node
119 May 11, 2040

Partial
124 November 4, 2040

Annular
129 April 30, 2041

Total
134 October 25, 2041

Annular
139 April 20, 2042

Total
144 October 14, 2042

Annular
149 April 9, 2043

Total (non-central)
154 October 3, 2043

Annular (non-central)

Saros 119

It is a part of Saros cycle 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 15, 850 AD. It contains total eclipses on August 9, 994 AD and August 20, 1012, with a hybrid eclipse on August 31, 1030. It has annular eclipses from September 10, 1048, through March 18, 1950. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 24, 2112. The longest duration of totality was only 32 seconds on August 20, 1012. The longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 37 seconds on September 1, 1625. The longest duration of hybridity was only 18 seconds on August 31, 1030.

Series members 54–70 occur between 1801 and 2100:
54 55 56

December 21, 1805

January 1, 1824

January 11, 1842
57 58 59

January 23, 1860

February 2, 1878
February 13, 1896
60 61 62

February 25, 1914

March 7, 1932

March 18, 1950
63 64 65

March 28, 1968

April 9, 1986

April 19, 2004
66 67 68

April 30, 2022

May 11, 2040

May 22, 2058
69 70

June 1, 2076

June 13, 2094

References

  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

  • http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2040May11P.GIF
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