Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

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Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018
Eclipse Solar Parcial - 15.02.2018 - Olivos, GBA (Argentina).jpg
From Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma −1.2116
Magnitude 0.5991
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 71°00′S0°36′E / 71°S 0.6°E / -71; 0.6
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:52:33
References
Saros 150 (17 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9547

A partial solar eclipse took place on February 15, 2018. [1] [2] [3] 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 eclipse took place before sunset in the Southern Cone of South America.

Images

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Animated path

Eclipses of 2018

Solar eclipses descending node 2015-2018

Solar eclipses 2015–2018

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 2015–2018
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
120
Total solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 by Damien Deltenre (licensed for free use). (32844461616).jpg
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
2015 March 20
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Total
0.94536125
Double Photobomb (21389400576).jpg
Solar Dynamics Observatory

2015 September 13
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Partial (south)
−1.10039
130
Total Solar Eclipse, 9 March 2016, from Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.JPG
Balikpapan, Indonesia
2016 March 9
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Total
0.26092135
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L'Étang-Salé, Réunion
2016 September 1
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Annular
−0.33301
140
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Partial from Buenos Aires
2017 February 26
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Annular
−0.45780145
Solar eclipse, Miles Landing 8-21-17 (36842678271).jpg
Casper, Wyoming
2017 August 21
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Total
0.43671
150
Eclipse Solar Parcial - 15.02.2018 - Olivos, GBA (Argentina).jpg
Partial from Olivos, Buenos Aires
2018 February 15
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Partial (south)
−1.21163155
2018.08.11 1214Z C8F6 Solar Eclipse (43976490201).jpg
Partial from Huittinen, Finland
2018 August 11
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Partial (north)
1.14758

Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

Saros 150

It is a part of Saros cycle 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 24, 1729. It contains annular eclipses from April 22, 2126 through June 22, 2829. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 29, 2991. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 58 seconds on December 19, 2522.

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.

21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12April 29–30February 15–16December 4–5September 21–23
116118120122124
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July 11, 1953
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April 30, 1957
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February 15, 1961
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December 4, 1964
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September 22, 1968
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July 10, 1972
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April 29, 1976
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February 16, 1980
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December 4, 1983
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September 23, 1987
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July 11, 1991
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April 29, 1995
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February 16, 1999
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December 4, 2002
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September 22, 2006
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July 11, 2010
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April 29, 2014
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February 15, 2018
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December 4, 2021
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September 21, 2025
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July 11, 2029
  1. Rao, Joe (February 14, 2018). "Partial Solar Eclipse Occurs Thursday at the Bottom of the World". Space.com.
  2. "Partial Solar Eclipse 2018: All You Need To Know About The Celestial Event". NDTV.com.
  3. "This solar eclipse 2018 was seen by NASA from space!". India Today.
  4. van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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