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Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077

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Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4705
Magnitude0.9371
Maximum eclipse
Duration474 s (7 min 54 s)
Coordinates7°48′N 70°48′W / 7.8°N 70.8°W / 7.8; -70.8
Max. width of band262 km (163 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse17:07:56
References
Saros134 (47 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9682

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, November 15, 2077,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9371. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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 4 days after apogee (on November 11, 2077, at 17:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.[2]

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of Oregon, southwestern Washington, northeastern California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas in the United States, the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula, the western tip of Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Guyana, southern Suriname, and extreme southern French Guiana. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and West Africa.

Eclipse details

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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]

November 15, 2077 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2077 November 15 at 14:13:10.5 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2077 November 15 at 15:22:03.8 UTC
First Central Line 2077 November 15 at 15:25:03.1 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2077 November 15 at 15:28:03.6 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2077 November 15 at 16:47:52.0 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2077 November 15 at 17:02:23.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2077 November 15 at 17:07:56.2 UTC
Greatest Duration 2077 November 15 at 17:21:02.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2077 November 15 at 18:48:03.6 UTC
Last Central Line 2077 November 15 at 18:51:01.7 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2077 November 15 at 18:53:58.6 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2077 November 15 at 20:02:45.4 UTC
November 15, 2077 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.93707
Eclipse Obscuration 0.87810
Gamma 0.47047
Sun Right Ascension 15h26m24.3s
Sun Declination -18°45'33.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'10.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 15h27m01.5s
Moon Declination -18°21'22.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter 14'56.9"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'51.8"
ΔT 103.7 s

Eclipse season

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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 November 2077
November 15
Descending node (new moon)
November 29
Ascending node (full moon)
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 134
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 146
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Eclipses in 2077

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 134

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 2076–2079

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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 6, 2076 and July 1, 2076 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2076 to 2079
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
119 June 1, 2076

Partial
−1.3897 124 November 26, 2076

Partial
1.1401
129 May 22, 2077

Total
−0.5725 134 November 15, 2077

Annular
0.4705
139 May 11, 2078

Total
0.1838 144 November 4, 2078

Annular
−0.2285
149 May 1, 2079

Total
0.9081 154 October 24, 2079

Annular
−0.9243

Saros 134

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843; and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. 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 was produced by member 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200:
32 33 34

June 6, 1807

June 16, 1825

June 27, 1843
35 36 37

July 8, 1861

July 19, 1879

July 29, 1897
38 39 40

August 10, 1915

August 21, 1933

September 1, 1951
41 42 43

September 11, 1969

September 23, 1987

October 3, 2005
44 45 46

October 14, 2023

October 25, 2041

November 5, 2059
47 48 49

November 15, 2077

November 27, 2095

December 8, 2113
50 51 52

December 19, 2131

December 30, 2149

January 10, 2168
53

January 20, 2186

Metonic series

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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 23, 2047 and November 16, 2134
June 22–23 April 10–11 January 27–29 November 15–16 September 3–5
118 120 122 124 126

June 23, 2047

April 11, 2051

January 27, 2055

November 16, 2058

September 3, 2062
128 130 132 134 136

June 22, 2066

April 11, 2070

January 27, 2074

November 15, 2077

September 3, 2081
138 140 142 144 146

June 22, 2085

April 10, 2089

January 27, 2093

November 15, 2096

September 4, 2100
148 150 152 154 156

June 22, 2104

April 11, 2108

January 29, 2112

November 16, 2115

September 5, 2119
158 160 162 164

June 23, 2123

November 16, 2134

Tritos series

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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

January 1, 1805
(Saros 109)

October 31, 1826
(Saros 111)

August 28, 1848
(Saros 113)

July 29, 1859
(Saros 114)

June 28, 1870
(Saros 115)

May 27, 1881
(Saros 116)

April 26, 1892
(Saros 117)

March 29, 1903
(Saros 118)

February 25, 1914
(Saros 119)

January 24, 1925
(Saros 120)

December 25, 1935
(Saros 121)

November 23, 1946
(Saros 122)

October 23, 1957
(Saros 123)

September 22, 1968
(Saros 124)

August 22, 1979
(Saros 125)

July 22, 1990
(Saros 126)

June 21, 2001
(Saros 127)

May 20, 2012
(Saros 128)

April 20, 2023
(Saros 129)

March 20, 2034
(Saros 130)

February 16, 2045
(Saros 131)

January 16, 2056
(Saros 132)

December 17, 2066
(Saros 133)

November 15, 2077
(Saros 134)

October 14, 2088
(Saros 135)

September 14, 2099
(Saros 136)

August 15, 2110
(Saros 137)

July 14, 2121
(Saros 138)

June 13, 2132
(Saros 139)

May 14, 2143
(Saros 140)

April 12, 2154
(Saros 141)

March 12, 2165
(Saros 142)

February 10, 2176
(Saros 143)

January 9, 2187
(Saros 144)

December 9, 2197
(Saros 145)

Inex series

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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

May 16, 1817
(Saros 125)

April 25, 1846
(Saros 126)

April 6, 1875
(Saros 127)

March 17, 1904
(Saros 128)

February 24, 1933
(Saros 129)

February 5, 1962
(Saros 130)

January 15, 1991
(Saros 131)

December 26, 2019
(Saros 132)

December 5, 2048
(Saros 133)

November 15, 2077
(Saros 134)

October 26, 2106
(Saros 135)

October 7, 2135
(Saros 136)

September 16, 2164
(Saros 137)

August 26, 2193
(Saros 138)

References

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  1. ^ "November 15, 2077 Annular Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse of 2077 Nov 15". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  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.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 134". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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