Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069

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Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069
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Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma 1.0624
Magnitude 0.8992
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 71°00′N101°18′W / 71°N 101.3°W / 71; -101.3
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse10:11:09
References
Saros 120 (64 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9663

A partial solar eclipse will occur on April 21, 2069. 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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Solar eclipses 2069–2072

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]

120 April 21, 2069
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Partial
125 October 15, 2069
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Partial
130 April 11, 2070
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Total
135 October 4, 2070
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Annular
140 March 31, 2071
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Annular
145 September 23, 2071
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Total
150 March 19, 2072
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Partial
155 September 12, 2072
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Total

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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References

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