Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081

24°36′N 53°36′E / 24.6°N 53.6°E / 24.6; 53.6Max. width of band247 km (153 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse9:07:31ReferencesSaros136 (41 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9690

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]

Countries and territories experiencing totality

• Guernsey
• Jersey
• France
• Switzerland
• Germany
• Liechtenstein
• Austria
• Italy
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Hungary
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Serbia
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Turkey
• Syria
• Iraq
• Iran
• Kuwait
• Saudi Arabia
• Bahrain
• Qatar
• United Arab Emirates
• Oman
• Maldives
• Indonesia

Major cities

• Paris
• Ankara
• Baghdad
• Doha
• Abu Dhabi

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2080–2083

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

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

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.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:
January 3, 1908 (Saros 130)	December 13, 1936 (Saros 131)	November 23, 1965 (Saros 132)
November 3, 1994 (Saros 133)	October 14, 2023 (Saros 134)	September 22, 2052 (Saros 135)
September 3, 2081 (Saros 136)

Notes

References

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