Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096

Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096
Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.1196
Magnitude	1.0737
Maximum eclipse
Duration	367 s (6 min 7 s)
Coordinates	27°18′N 153°24′E / 27.3°N 153.4°E
Max. width of band	241 km (150 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	1:37:14
References
Saros	139 (34 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9724

A total solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, May 22, 2096. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This will be the first eclipse of saros series 139 to exceed series 136 in length of totality. The length of totality for saros 139 is increasing, while that of Saros 136 is decreasing.

The eclipse will begin when the Moon's shadow first reaches Earth in Indonesia, the Philippines and the Western Pacific Ocean, which are west of the International Date Line, in the morning hours of Tuesday, May 22, 2096 and will be seen east of the line in the afternoon hours of Monday, May 21, 2096. It will end as a partial eclipse over the United States West Coast.

Overall, at 6 minutes and 7 seconds, this will be the third longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century. The only two longer eclipses in the century are July 22, 2009 and August 2, 2027. The longest duration of this eclipse on land is not as long however, and it will be seen in Surigao del Sur, the Philippines, for 4 minutes and 38 seconds.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 2094–2098[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]

119	June 13, 2094 Partial	124	December 7, 2094 Partial
129	June 2, 2095 Total	134	November 27, 2095 Annular
139	May 22, 2096 Total	144	November 15, 2096 Annular
149	May 11, 2097 Total	154	November 4, 2097 Annular
		164	October 24, 2098 Partial

Saros 139[edit]

This eclipse is a member of saros series 139, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 17, 1501. It contains hybrid eclipses on August 11, 1627, through to December 9, 1825; and total eclipses from December 21, 1843, through to March 26, 2601. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 3, 2763. 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 solar eclipse of June 13, 2132, will be the longest total solar eclipse since July 11, 1991, at 6 minutes, 55.02 seconds.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 39 at 7 minutes, 29.22 seconds on July 16, 2186.^[2] After that date, the durations of totality will decrease until the series ends. This date is the longest solar eclipse computed between 4000 BC and AD 6000.^[3] Saros series eclipses occur during the Moon's ascending node (a term related to our equator and polar-naming conventions).

Series members 24–45 occur between 1901 and 2300
24	25	26
February 3, 1916	February 14, 1934	February 25, 1952
27	28	29
March 7, 1970	March 18, 1988	March 29, 2006
30	31	32
April 8, 2024	April 20, 2042	April 30, 2060
33	34	35
May 11, 2078	May 22, 2096	June 3, 2114
36	37	38
June 13, 2132	June 25, 2150	July 5, 2168
39	40	41
July 16, 2186	July 27, 2204	August 8, 2222
42	43	44
August 18, 2240	August 29, 2258	September 9, 2276
45
September 20, 2294