Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044

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Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 0.9613
Magnitude 1.0364
Maximum eclipse
Duration124 s (2 min 4 s)
Coordinates 64°18′N120°24′W / 64.3°N 120.4°W / 64.3; -120.4
Max. width of band453 km (281 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse1:17:02
References
Saros 126 (49 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9606

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Monday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 23, 2044, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0364. 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 2.1 days after perigee (on August 21, 2044, at 0:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger. [2]

Contents

This will be the last of 41 umbral solar eclipses in Solar Saros 126.

Path

Totality will be visible in the evening of August 22 across: [3]

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in Siberia in the morning of August 23, and throughout western Canada and United States until sunset on August 22.

The greatest duration of the total eclipse will be observed in the Northwest Territories, approximately 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Great Bear Lake. [4]

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. [5]

August 23, 2044 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2044 August 22 at 23:10:51.7 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2044 August 23 at 00:27:10.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2044 August 23 at 00:46:01.0 UTC
First Central Line2044 August 23 at 00:49:11.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2044 August 23 at 00:52:44.5 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2044 August 23 at 01:07:14.0 UTC
Greatest Duration2044 August 23 at 01:16:35.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2044 August 23 at 01:17:01.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2044 August 23 at 01:41:52.4 UTC
Last Central Line2044 August 23 at 01:45:22.9 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2044 August 23 at 01:48:31.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2044 August 23 at 03:23:35.9 UTC
August 23, 2044 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude1.03644
Eclipse Obscuration1.07420
Gamma0.96130
Sun Right Ascension10h10m33.4s
Sun Declination+11°16'02.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'48.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension10h12m17.2s
Moon Declination+12°07'34.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'19.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°59'55.1"
ΔT81.0 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 August–September 2044
August 23
Descending node (new moon)
September 7
Ascending node (full moon)
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Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 126
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 138

Eclipses in 2044

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 126

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2044–2047

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. [6]

The partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2044 to 2047
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
121 February 28, 2044
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Annular
−0.9954126 August 23, 2044
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Total
0.9613
131 February 16, 2045
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Annular
−0.3125136 August 12, 2045
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Total
0.2116
141 February 5, 2046
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Annular
0.3765146 August 2, 2046
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Total
−0.535
151 January 26, 2047
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Partial
1.045156 July 22, 2047
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Partial
−1.3477

Saros 126

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810; hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864; and total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. 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 annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on June 26, 1359, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 45 at 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [7]

Series members 36–57 occur between 1801 and 2200:
363738
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April 4, 1810
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April 14, 1828
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April 25, 1846
394041
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May 6, 1864
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May 17, 1882
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May 28, 1900
424344
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June 8, 1918
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June 19, 1936
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June 30, 1954
454647
SE1972Jul10T.png
July 10, 1972
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July 22, 1990
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August 1, 2008
484950
SE2026Aug12T.png
August 12, 2026
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August 23, 2044
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September 3, 2062
515253
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September 13, 2080
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September 25, 2098
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October 6, 2116
545556
Saros126 54van72 SE2134Oct17P.jpg
October 17, 2134
Saros126 55van72 SE2152Oct28P.jpg
October 28, 2152
Saros126 56van72 SE2170Nov08P.jpg
November 8, 2170
57
Saros126 57van72 SE2188Nov18P.jpg
November 18, 2188

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 descending node.

22 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116
June 11–12March 30–31January 16November 4–5August 23–24
118120122124126
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June 12, 2029
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March 30, 2033
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January 16, 2037
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November 4, 2040
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August 23, 2044
128130132134136
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June 11, 2048
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March 30, 2052
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January 16, 2056
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November 5, 2059
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August 24, 2063
138140142144146
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June 11, 2067
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March 31, 2071
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January 16, 2075
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November 4, 2078
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August 24, 2082
148150152154156
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June 11, 2086
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March 31, 2090
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January 16, 2094
SE2097Nov04A.png
November 4, 2097
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August 24, 2101
158160162164
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June 12, 2105
Saros164 02van80 SE2116Nov04P.jpg
November 4, 2116

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 1837 and 2200
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April 5, 1837
(Saros 107)
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March 5, 1848
(Saros 108)
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February 3, 1859
(Saros 109)
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December 2, 1880
(Saros 111)
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August 31, 1913
(Saros 114)
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July 31, 1924
(Saros 115)
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June 30, 1935
(Saros 116)
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May 30, 1946
(Saros 117)
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April 30, 1957
(Saros 118)
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March 28, 1968
(Saros 119)
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February 26, 1979
(Saros 120)
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January 26, 1990
(Saros 121)
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December 25, 2000
(Saros 122)
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November 25, 2011
(Saros 123)
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October 25, 2022
(Saros 124)
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September 23, 2033
(Saros 125)
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August 23, 2044
(Saros 126)
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July 24, 2055
(Saros 127)
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June 22, 2066
(Saros 128)
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May 22, 2077
(Saros 129)
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April 21, 2088
(Saros 130)
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March 21, 2099
(Saros 131)
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February 18, 2110
(Saros 132)
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January 19, 2121
(Saros 133)
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December 19, 2131
(Saros 134)
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November 17, 2142
(Saros 135)
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October 17, 2153
(Saros 136)
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September 16, 2164
(Saros 137)
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August 16, 2175
(Saros 138)
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July 16, 2186
(Saros 139)
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June 15, 2197
(Saros 140)

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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February 1, 1813
(Saros 118)
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January 11, 1842
(Saros 119)
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December 22, 1870
(Saros 120)
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December 3, 1899
(Saros 121)
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November 12, 1928
(Saros 122)
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October 23, 1957
(Saros 123)
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October 3, 1986
(Saros 124)
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September 13, 2015
(Saros 125)
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August 23, 2044
(Saros 126)
SE2073Aug03T.png
August 3, 2073
(Saros 127)
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July 15, 2102
(Saros 128)
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June 25, 2131
(Saros 129)
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June 4, 2160
(Saros 130)
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May 15, 2189
(Saros 131)

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