Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024

Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.3509
Magnitude	0.9326
Maximum eclipse
Duration	445 s (7 min 25 s)
Coordinates	22°00′S 114°30′W / 22°S 114.5°W
Max. width of band	266 km (165 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	18:46:13
References
Saros	144 (17 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9562

An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024. 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.

Other than Easter Island and a small portion near the southern tips of Argentina and Chile and the north of the Falkland Islands,^[1] the path of the eclipse's antumbra will be entirely over the Pacific Ocean. The penumbra will be visible from southern South America, Hawaii, the southwesternmost parts of Mexico (more specifically, Baja California del Sur and Jalisco), and portions of Antarctica. The eclipse’s magnitude will be 0.93261, occurring only 56 minutes before apogee.

The next solar eclipse occurs on March 29, 2025.

Images[edit]

Animated path

Related eclipses[edit]

The 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.^[2] It is also part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events.

Eclipses of 2024[edit]

A penumbral lunar eclipse on 25 March.
A total solar eclipse on 8 April.
A partial lunar eclipse on 18 September.
An annular solar eclipse on 2 October.

References[edit]

^ "An annular solar eclipse on October 2, 2024". earthsky.org. October 1, 2024. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2018.