Solar eclipse of May 21, 2031

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Solar eclipse of May 21, 2031
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma −0.197
Magnitude 0.9589
Maximum eclipse
Duration326 s (5 min 26 s)
Coordinates 8°54′N71°42′E / 8.9°N 71.7°E / 8.9; 71.7
Max. width of band152 km (94 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse7:16:04
References
Saros 138 (32 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9577

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, May 21, 2031, [1] with a magnitude of 0.9589. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 3.8 days before apogee (on May 25, 2031, at 3:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller. [2]

Contents

Annularity will be visible from parts of Angola, Zambia, the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Malawi, Tanzania, southern India, northern Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and much of Indonesia. A partial eclipse will be visible for much of Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

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]

May 21, 2031 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2031 May 21 at 04:15:23.0 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2031 May 21 at 05:19:52.6 UTC
First Central Line2031 May 21 at 05:21:47.0 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2031 May 21 at 05:23:41.5 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2031 May 21 at 06:30:37.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2031 May 21 at 07:13:28.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2031 May 21 at 07:16:04.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2031 May 21 at 07:18:22.9 UTC
Greatest Duration2031 May 21 at 07:24:28.7 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2031 May 21 at 08:01:34.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2031 May 21 at 09:08:27.6 UTC
Last Central Line2031 May 21 at 09:10:24.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2031 May 21 at 09:12:20.5 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2031 May 21 at 10:16:51.4 UTC
May 21, 2031 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.95892
Eclipse Obscuration0.91954
Gamma−0.19699
Sun Right Ascension03h51m34.6s
Sun Declination+20°09'39.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'48.2"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension03h51m39.8s
Moon Declination+19°58'57.5"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'55.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'47.5"
ΔT74.4 s

Stars and Planets during the Eclipse

Even those stars and planets bright enough to be visible during a total solar eclipse are in most cases not visible during an annular eclipse. The best candidate for naked-eye sighting is Venus, although it will be many degrees east of the Sun and therefore below the eastern horizon for morning observers in Africa. In southern India it will be well up in the east but at a lower altitude than the Sun. Venus will be best seen in those areas such as Malaysia and Indonesia where the eclipse peaks near sunset; it will be high in the west.

If any star is spotted during the eclipse it will be Sirius, which will be high in the east-southeast for observers in India and high in the west-southwest for observers in the East Indies.


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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of May–June 2031
May 7
Ascending node (full moon)
May 21
Descending node (new moon)
June 5
Ascending node (full moon)
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Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 112
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 138
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 150

Eclipses in 2031

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 138

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2029–2032

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]

The partial solar eclipses on January 14, 2029 and July 11, 2029 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2029 to 2032
Descending node Ascending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118 June 12, 2029
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Partial
1.29431123 December 5, 2029
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Partial
−1.06090
128 June 1, 2030
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Annular
0.56265133 November 25, 2030
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Total
−0.38669
138 May 21, 2031
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Annular
−0.19699143 November 14, 2031
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Hybrid
0.30776
148 May 9, 2032
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Annular
−0.93748153 November 3, 2032
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Partial
1.06431

Saros 138

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482; a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500; and total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. 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 23 at 8 minutes, 2 seconds on February 11, 1869, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 56 seconds on April 3, 2554. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [5]

Series members 20–41 occur between 1801 and 2200:
202122
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January 10, 1815
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January 20, 1833
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February 1, 1851
232425
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February 11, 1869
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February 22, 1887
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March 6, 1905
262728
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March 17, 1923
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March 27, 1941
SE1959Apr08A.png
April 8, 1959
293031
SE1977Apr18A.png
April 18, 1977
SE1995Apr29A.png
April 29, 1995
SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013
323334
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May 21, 2031
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May 31, 2049
SE2067Jun11A.png
June 11, 2067
353637
SE2085Jun22A.png
June 22, 2085
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July 4, 2103
SE2121Jul14A.png
July 14, 2121
383940
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July 25, 2139
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August 5, 2157
SE2175Aug16A.png
August 16, 2175
41
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August 26, 2193

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 between May 21, 1993 and May 20, 2069
May 20–21March 9December 25–26October 13–14August 1–2
118120122124126
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May 21, 1993
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March 9, 1997
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December 25, 2000
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October 14, 2004
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August 1, 2008
128130132134136
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May 20, 2012
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March 9, 2016
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December 26, 2019
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October 14, 2023
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August 2, 2027
138140142144146
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May 21, 2031
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March 9, 2035
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December 26, 2038
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October 14, 2042
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August 2, 2046
148150152154156
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May 20, 2050
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March 9, 2054
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December 26, 2057
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October 13, 2061
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August 2, 2065
158
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May 20, 2069

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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March 4, 1802
(Saros 117)
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February 1, 1813
(Saros 118)
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January 1, 1824
(Saros 119)
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November 30, 1834
(Saros 120)
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October 30, 1845
(Saros 121)
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September 29, 1856
(Saros 122)
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August 29, 1867
(Saros 123)
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July 29, 1878
(Saros 124)
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June 28, 1889
(Saros 125)
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May 28, 1900
(Saros 126)
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April 28, 1911
(Saros 127)
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March 28, 1922
(Saros 128)
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February 24, 1933
(Saros 129)
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January 25, 1944
(Saros 130)
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December 25, 1954
(Saros 131)
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November 23, 1965
(Saros 132)
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October 23, 1976
(Saros 133)
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September 23, 1987
(Saros 134)
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August 22, 1998
(Saros 135)
SE2009Jul22T.png
July 22, 2009
(Saros 136)
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June 21, 2020
(Saros 137)
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May 21, 2031
(Saros 138)
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April 20, 2042
(Saros 139)
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March 20, 2053
(Saros 140)
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February 17, 2064
(Saros 141)
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January 16, 2075
(Saros 142)
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December 16, 2085
(Saros 143)
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November 15, 2096
(Saros 144)
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October 16, 2107
(Saros 145)
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September 15, 2118
(Saros 146)
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August 15, 2129
(Saros 147)
Saros148 28van75 SE2140Jul14T.jpg
July 14, 2140
(Saros 148)
Saros149 28van71 SE2151Jun14T.jpg
June 14, 2151
(Saros 149)
Saros150 25van71 SE2162May14A.jpg
May 14, 2162
(Saros 150)
Saros151 23van72 SE2173Apr12A.jpg
April 12, 2173
(Saros 151)
Saros152 22van70 SE2184Mar12T.jpg
March 12, 2184
(Saros 152)
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February 10, 2195
(Saros 153)

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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October 9, 1828
(Saros 131)
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September 18, 1857
(Saros 132)
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August 29, 1886
(Saros 133)
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August 10, 1915
(Saros 134)
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July 20, 1944
(Saros 135)
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June 30, 1973
(Saros 136)
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June 10, 2002
(Saros 137)
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May 21, 2031
(Saros 138)
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April 30, 2060
(Saros 139)
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April 10, 2089
(Saros 140)
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March 22, 2118
(Saros 141)
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March 2, 2147
(Saros 142)
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February 10, 2176
(Saros 143)

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