Solar eclipse of March 31, 2090

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Solar eclipse of March 31, 2090
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma−1.1028
Magnitude0.7843
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates72°06′S 156°18′W / 72.1°S 156.3°W / -72.1; -156.3
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse3:38:08
References
Saros150 (21 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9710

A partial solar eclipse will occur on March 31, 2090. 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.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 2087–2090[edit]

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.[1]

120 May 2, 2087

Partial
125 October 26, 2087

Partial
130 April 21, 2088

Total
135 October 14, 2088

Annular
140 April 10, 2089

Annular
145 October 4, 2089

Total
150 March 31, 2090

Partial
155 September 23, 2090

Total

Saros 150[edit]

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.

Tritos series[edit]

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.

Metonic cycle[edit]

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).

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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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