Solar eclipse of December 6, 2067

Solar eclipse of December 6, 2067
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Hybrid
Gamma 0.2845
Magnitude 1.0011
Maximum eclipse
Duration 8 sec (0 m 8 s)
Coordinates 6°00′S 32°24′W / 6°S 32.4°W / -6; -32.4
Max. width of band 4 km (2.5 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 14:03:43
References
Saros 143 (26 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9659

A total solar eclipse will occur on December 6, 2067. It is a hybrid event, beginning and ending as an annular eclipse. 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.

Solar eclipses 2065-2069

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.

118July 3, 2065

Partial		 123December 27, 2065

Partial
128June 22, 2066

Annular		 133December 17, 2066

Total
138June 11, 2067

Annular		 143December 6, 2067

Hybrid
148May 31, 2068

Total		 153November 24, 2068

Partial
158May 20, 2069

Partial

Saros 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887.[1]

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros143.html

References

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