Solar eclipse of April 11, 2051

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Solar eclipse of April 11, 2051
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Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma 1.0169
Magnitude 0.9849
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 71°36′N32°12′E / 71.6°N 32.2°E / 71.6; 32.2
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse2:10:39
References
Saros 120 (63 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9621

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, April 11, 2051. 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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The umbral shadow of the Moon will pass just above the north pole of the Earth. It will be the largest partial solar eclipse in 21st century. [1]

The maximal phase of the partial eclipse (0.98) will be recorded in Barents Sea. The eclipse will be observed on the north-east of Europe and practically throughout in Asia, on north on Canada and Greenland and everywhere in US state Alaska.

Solar eclipses 2051–2054

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2051–2054
Descending node Ascending node
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120 April 11, 2051
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Partial
125 October 4, 2051
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Partial
130 March 30, 2052
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Total
135 September 22, 2052
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Annular
140 March 20, 2053
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Annular
145 September 12, 2053
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Total
150 March 9, 2054
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Partial
155 September 2, 2054
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Partial

Saros 120

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100
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January 14, 1907
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January 24, 1925
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February 4, 1943
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February 15, 1961
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February 26, 1979
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March 9, 1997
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March 20, 2015
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March 30, 2033
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April 11, 2051
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April 21, 2069
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May 2, 2087

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