Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087

Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1139
Magnitude	0.8011
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	70.3°N 127.6°E / 70.3; 127.6
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	18:04:42
References
Saros	120 (65 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9704

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Friday 2 May 2087. 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

Solar eclipses 2087–2090

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.

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 120

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100
55	56	57
January 14, 1907	January 24, 1925	February 4, 1943
58	59	60
February 15, 1961	February 26, 1979	March 9, 1997
61	62	63
March 20, 2015	March 30, 2033	April 11, 2051
64	65
April 21, 2069	May 2, 2087

External links

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2087May02P.GIF