Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043

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Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 1.0031
Magnitude 1.0095
Maximum eclipse
Duration-
Coordinates 61°18′N152°00′E / 61.3°N 152°E / 61.3; 152
Max. width of band- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse18:57:49
References
Saros 149 (22 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9603

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10, 2043, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0095. 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. Occurring about 22 hours before perigee (on April 10, 2043, at 17:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger. [2]

Contents

It will be unusual in that while it is a total solar eclipse, it is not a central solar eclipse. A non-central eclipse is one where the center-line of totality does not intersect the surface of the Earth (when the gamma is between 0.9972 and 1.0260). Instead, the center line passes just above the Earth's surface. This rare type occurs when totality is only visible at sunset or sunrise in a polar region.

This will be the first of 43 umbral eclipses in Solar Saros 149.

Visibility

The eclipse will be seen fully from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast and on the north-east of Yakutia (in the morning on April 10 local time). It will be visible partially throughout northeastern Russia, in Canada, Greenland, Svalbard and Iceland. It will be also partially visible from the western part United States including Alaska, Hawaii, and the North Pacific.

Settlements of total phase: Evensk, Omsukchan, Palana, Seymchan and Zyryanka.

Images

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Animated path

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse. [3]

April 9, 2043 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2043 April 09 at 16:57:34.2 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2043 April 09 at 18:47:08.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2043 April 09 at 18:57:49.4 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2043 April 09 at 19:07:51.6 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2043 April 09 at 19:07:58.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2043 April 09 at 19:52:18.5 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2043 April 09 at 20:57:40.4 UTC
April 9, 2043 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude1.00956
Eclipse Obscuration-
Gamma1.00314
Sun Right Ascension01h13m12.2s
Sun Declination+07°45'05.1"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'58.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.8"
Moon Right Ascension01h11m17.3s
Moon Declination+08°39'09.1"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'38.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax1°01'02.7"
ΔT80.3 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of March–April 2043
March 25
Descending node (full moon)
April 9
Ascending node (new moon)
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Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 123
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 149

Eclipses in 2043

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 149

Inex

Triad

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. [4]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2040 to 2043
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
119 May 11, 2040
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Partial
−1.2529124 November 4, 2040
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Partial
1.0993
129 April 30, 2041
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Total
−0.4492134 October 25, 2041
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Annular
0.4133
139 April 20, 2042
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Total
0.2956144 October 14, 2042
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Annular
−0.303
149 April 9, 2043
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Total (non-central)
1.0031154 October 3, 2043
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Annular (non-central)
1.0102

Saros 149

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 149, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It contains total eclipses from April 9, 2043 through October 2, 2331; hybrid eclipses from October 13, 2349 through November 3, 2385; and annular eclipses from November 15, 2403 through July 13, 2800. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 31 at 4 minutes, 10 seconds on July 17, 2205, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 62 at 5 minutes, 6 seconds on June 21, 2764. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit. [5]

Series members 9–30 occur between 1801 and 2200:
91011
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November 18, 1808
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November 29, 1826
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December 9, 1844
121314
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December 21, 1862
SE1880Dec31P.gif
December 31, 1880
SE1899Jan11P.gif
January 11, 1899
151617
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January 23, 1917
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February 3, 1935
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February 14, 1953
181920
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February 25, 1971
SE1989Mar07P.png
March 7, 1989
SE2007Mar19P.png
March 19, 2007
212223
SE2025Mar29P.png
March 29, 2025
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April 9, 2043
SE2061Apr20T.png
April 20, 2061
242526
SE2079May01T.png
May 1, 2079
SE2097May11T.png
May 11, 2097
SE2115May24T.png
May 24, 2115
272829
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June 3, 2133
Saros149 28van71 SE2151Jun14T.jpg
June 14, 2151
SE2169Jun25T.png
June 25, 2169
30
Saros149 30van71 SE2187Jul06T.jpg
July 6, 2187

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982 and June 21, 2058
June 21April 8–9January 26November 13–14September 1–2
117119121123125
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June 21, 1982
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April 9, 1986
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January 26, 1990
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November 13, 1993
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September 2, 1997
127129131133135
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June 21, 2001
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April 8, 2005
SE2009Jan26A.png
January 26, 2009
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November 13, 2012
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September 1, 2016
137139141143145
SE2020Jun21A.png
June 21, 2020
SE2024Apr08T.png
April 8, 2024
SE2028Jan26A.png
January 26, 2028
SE2031Nov14H.png
November 14, 2031
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September 2, 2035
147149151153155
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June 21, 2039
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April 9, 2043
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January 26, 2047
SE2050Nov14P.png
November 14, 2050
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September 2, 2054
157
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June 21, 2058

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
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February 21, 1803
(Saros 127)
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January 21, 1814
(Saros 128)
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December 20, 1824
(Saros 129)
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November 20, 1835
(Saros 130)
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October 20, 1846
(Saros 131)
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September 18, 1857
(Saros 132)
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August 18, 1868
(Saros 133)
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July 19, 1879
(Saros 134)
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June 17, 1890
(Saros 135)
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May 18, 1901
(Saros 136)
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April 17, 1912
(Saros 137)
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March 17, 1923
(Saros 138)
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February 14, 1934
(Saros 139)
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January 14, 1945
(Saros 140)
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December 14, 1955
(Saros 141)
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November 12, 1966
(Saros 142)
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October 12, 1977
(Saros 143)
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September 11, 1988
(Saros 144)
SE1999Aug11T.png
August 11, 1999
(Saros 145)
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July 11, 2010
(Saros 146)
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June 10, 2021
(Saros 147)
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May 9, 2032
(Saros 148)
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April 9, 2043
(Saros 149)
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March 9, 2054
(Saros 150)
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February 5, 2065
(Saros 151)
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January 6, 2076
(Saros 152)
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December 6, 2086
(Saros 153)
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November 4, 2097
(Saros 154)
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October 5, 2108
(Saros 155)
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September 5, 2119
(Saros 156)
Saros157 05van70 SE2130Aug04P.jpg
August 4, 2130
(Saros 157)
Saros158 05van70 SE2141Jul03P.jpg
July 3, 2141
(Saros 158)
Saros159 02van70 SE2152Jun03P.jpg
June 3, 2152
(Saros 159)
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April 1, 2174
(Saros 161)

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
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September 17, 1811
(Saros 141)
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August 27, 1840
(Saros 142)
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August 7, 1869
(Saros 143)
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July 18, 1898
(Saros 144)
SE1927Jun29T.png
June 29, 1927
(Saros 145)
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June 8, 1956
(Saros 146)
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May 19, 1985
(Saros 147)
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April 29, 2014
(Saros 148)
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April 9, 2043
(Saros 149)
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March 19, 2072
(Saros 150)
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February 28, 2101
(Saros 151)
Saros152 19van70 SE2130Feb08T.jpg
February 8, 2130
(Saros 152)
Saros153 17van70 SE2159Jan19A.jpg
January 19, 2159
(Saros 153)
Saros154 16van71 SE2187Dec29A.jpg
December 29, 2187
(Saros 154)

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